Purification, cDNA cloning and modification of a defensin from the coconut rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes rhinoceros

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 266, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 616-623

  Ishibashi, Jun ^a   Saido Sakanaka, Hisako ^a   Yang, Jun ^a   Sagisaka, Aki ^a   Yamakawa, Minoru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibacterial peptide; CDNA cloning; Gene expression; Oryctes rhinoceros; Synthetic oligopeptides

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEFENSIN; ALANINE; LIPOSOME; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BEETLE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG SCREENING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HEMOLYMPH; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEFENSINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYMPH; LIPOSOMES; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033485381     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00906.x     Document Type: Article

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