A protein with antimicrobial activity in the skin of Schlegel's green tree frog Rhacophorus schlegelii (Rhacophoridae) identified as histone H2B

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 312, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1082-1086

  Kawasaki, Hiroaki ^a   Isaacson, Todd ^b   Iwamuro, Shawichi ^a   Conlon, J Michael ^c  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTONE H2B; PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FROG; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH INHIBITION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN; SPECIES COMPARISON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYLIDAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; RHACOPHORIDAE; RHACOPHORUS; RHACOPHORUS SCHLEGELII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0344495330     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.11.052     Document Type: Article

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