Recombinant expression of the antimicrobial peptide polyphemusin and its activity against the protozoan oyster pathogen Perkinsus marinus

Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 248-259

  Pierce, James C ^a   Lee Maloy, W ^b   Salvador, Lisa ^b   Dungan, Christopher F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Genaera Corporation   (United States)

^c MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; HYBRID PROTEIN; MALTOSE BINDING PROTEIN; MALTOSE TRANSPORT SYSTEM, E COLI; MALTOSE-BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; POLYPHEMUSIN I;

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; POLYPHEMUSIN; PROTOZOAN DISEASES; THERAPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIMULUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OYSTER; PARASITOLOGY; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; APICOMPLEXA; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORSESHOE CRABS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OSTREIDAE; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA; OSTREIDAE; PERKINSUS MARINUS; POLYPHEMUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0343554635     PISSN: 10536426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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