An antimicrobial peptide with trypanocidal activity characterized from Glossina morsitans morsitans

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 105-115

  Hu, Youjia ^a,b   Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Shanghai Inst Pharmaceutical I   (China)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Attacin; Glossina; Immunity; Symbiont; Trypanosomiasis; Tsetse

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; ATTACIN ANTIBACTERIAL PROTEIN, INSECT; INSECT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TSETSE FLY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CELL LINE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TSETSE FLIES;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; GLOSSINA (PROPER); GLOSSINA MORSITANS; GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS; GLOSSINIDAE; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTOZOA; SODALIS; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 12544255946     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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