Penaeidins, antimicrobial peptides with chitin-binding activity, are produced and stored in shrimp granulocytes and released after microbial challenge

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 461-469

  Destoumieux, Delphine ^a   Muñoz, Marcello ^a   Cosseau, Céline ^a   Rodriguez, Jenny ^b   Bulet, Philippe ^c   Comps, Michel ^a   Bachère, Evelyne ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Chitin binding; Crustacean immunity; Haemocyte; Penaeid shrimp

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHITIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; PINAEDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BLOOD CELL; CELL GRANULE; GRANULOCYTE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROVOCATION TEST; SHRIMP; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FUSARIUM; GRANULOCYTES; HEMOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCACEAE; VIBRIO;

EID: 0034002081     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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