Isolation of dermatoxin from frog skin, an antibacterial peptide encoded by a novel member of the dermaseptin genes family

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 4583-4592

  Amiche, Mohamed ^a   Seon, Aurélia A ^a   Wroblewski, Henri ^b   Nicolas, Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b Université Paris 7 ^*

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Ceratotoxins; Dermaseptins; Dermorphin; Frog skin

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DELTORPHIN; DERMASEPTIN; DERMATOXIN; DERMORPHIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; FROG; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALAMETHICIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIA; BUFONIDAE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DERMOTOXINS; EPIDERMIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPIROPLASMA; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYLIDAE; MOLLICUTES; NEGIBACTERIA; PHYLLOMEDUSA; PHYLLOMEDUSA BICOLOR; POSIBACTERIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0033927339     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01514.x     Document Type: Article

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