Purification and cDNA cloning of inducible antibacterial peptides from Protaetia brevitarsis (Coleoptera)

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 92-103

  Yoon, Hye Suk ^a   Lee, Chang Seok ^a   Lee, Sang Yong ^a   Choi, Chung Sik ^a   Lee, In Hee ^b   Yeo, Sung Moon ^c   Kim, Hak R ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Hoseo University   (South Korea)

^c Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antibacterial peptide; MALDI TOF mass spectrometry; N terminal amino acid sequence; Northern blot analysis; Protaetia brevitarsis; Protaetin; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOLOTRICHIA DIOMPHALIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTAETIA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYMPH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEMOLYMPH; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 0037315856     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arch.10072     Document Type: Article

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