Two isoforms of a member of the arthropod defensin family from the soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata (Acari: Argasidae)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 747-751

  Nakajima, Yoshiro ^a   Van Naters Yasui, Ayako van der Goes ^a   Taylor, DeMar ^a   Yamakawa, Minoru ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acari; Antibacterial peptide; Blood feeding; Defensin; Ornithodoros moubata; Tick

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTI INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEFENSIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYMPH; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SCORPION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEFENSINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TICKS;

ACARI; ARGASIDAE; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; ORNITHODOROS; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0035933371     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(01)00066-2     Document Type: Article

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