Antimicrobial peptides isolated from skin secretions of the diploid frog, Xenopus tropicalis (Pipidae)

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Volumn 1550, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 81-89

  Ali, Mohamed F ^a   Soto, AnaMaria ^b   Knoop, Floyd C ^a   Conlon, J Michael ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian skin; Antimicrobial; Peptide glycine leucine amide; Procaerulein; Prolevitide; Proxenopsin

Indexed keywords

GLYCYLLEUCINE; GLYCYLLEUCYLLEUCYLGLYCYLPROLYLLEUCYLLEUCYLLYSYLISOLEUCYLALANYLALANYLLYSYLVA LYLGLYCYLSERYLASPARAGINYLLEUCYLLEUCINE; LYSINE; NORADRENALIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROCAERULEIN; PROLEVITIDE; PROXENOPSIN; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CONFORMATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG STRUCTURE; FROG; HEMOLYSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ERYTHROCYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NOREPINEPHRINE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PIPIDAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SHIGELLA SONNEI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP C'; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

EID: 0035956269     PISSN: 01674838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(01)00272-2     Document Type: Article

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