The detection and isolation of a novel antimicrobial peptide from the echinoderm, Cucumaria frondosa

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 484, Issue , 2001, Pages 55-62

  Beauregard, K A ^a   Truong, N T ^a   Zhang, H ^a   Lin, W ^a   Beck, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BACTERIOLYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; ECHINODERM; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEA CUCUMBERS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUCUMARIA FRONDOSA; ECHINODERMATA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0035054451     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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