Kassinatuerin-1: A peptide with broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity isolated from the skin of the hyperoliid frog, kassina senegalensis

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 433-436

  Mattute, Beverly ^a   Knoop, Floyd C ^a   Conlon, J Michael ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; KASSINATUERIN 1; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICA; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FROG; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYPEROLIIDAE; KASSINA SENEGALENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0034673291     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2136     Document Type: Article

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