Cloning and expression of gallerimycin, an antifungal peptide expressed in immune response of greater wax moth larvae, Galleria mellonella

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 125-133

  Schuhmann, Berit ^a   Seitz, Volkhard ^b   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^c   Podsiadlowski, Lars ^a,d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d Institut für Biologie Zoologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antifungal peptide; Gallerimycin; Insect immunity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HELIOTHIS; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MELANOGASTER; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; DEFENSIN; INSECT PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD CELL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEFENSINS; GENE LIBRARY; HEMOCYTES; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0042970579     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arch.10091     Document Type: Article

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