Calcitermin, a novel antimicrobial peptide isolated from human airway secretions

FEBS Letters

Volumn 504, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 5-10

  Cole, Alexander M ^a   Kim, Yong Hwan ^a   Tahk, Samuel ^a   Hong, Teresa ^a   Weis, Peddrick ^b   Waring, Alan J ^a   Ganz, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway; Antimicrobial peptide; Calgranulin; Innate immunity; S100; Secretion

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CALCITERMIN; CALGRANULIN; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN S 100; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC CHLORIDE;

ACIDITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE SECRETION; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NASAL MUCOSA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; S100 PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; ZINC;

EID: 0035943515     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(01)02731-4     Document Type: Article

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