Purification, structure-function analysis, and molecular characterization of novel linear peptides from scorpion Opisthacanthus madagascariensis

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 293, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1514-1522

  Dai, Li ^a   Corzo, Gerardo ^a   Naoki, Hideo ^a   Andriantsiferana, Marta ^b   Nakajima, Terumi ^a  

^a SUNTORY INSTITUTE FOR BIOORGANIC RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Amphipathic helix; Antimicrobial; cDNA; Enzymatic reaction; Hemolytic; Precursor; Scorpion venom

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN ISCT; PROTEIN ISCT2; PROTEIN ISCT2F; PROTEIN ISCTF; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; FUNGUS; GENETIC CODE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPISTHACANTHUS MADAGASCARIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORPION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROCYTES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SHEEP; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TIME FACTORS;

FUNGI; OPISTHACANTHUS MADAGASCARIENSIS; OVIS ARIES; POSIBACTERIA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0036079319     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)00423-0     Document Type: Article

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