Mouse SWAM1 and SWAM2 are antibacterial proteins composed of a single whey acidic protein motif

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1973-1979

  Hagiwara, Koichi ^a,c   Kikuchi, Tohru ^a   Endo, Yoshiyuki ^a   Huqun, ^a   Usui, Kazuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Mitsu ^a   Shibata, Naoko ^a   Kusakabe, Takashi ^b   Xin, Hong ^a   Hoshi, Sachiko ^a   Miki, Makoto ^a   Inooka, Nozomu ^a   Tokue, Yutaka ^a   Nukiwa, Toshihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELAFIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SWAM1; PROTEIN SWAM2; SECRETORY LEUKOCYTE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 20; CLONE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; KIDNEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TONGUE; WHEY;

EID: 0037442202     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.4.1973     Document Type: Article

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