The structural organization of aurein precursor cDNAs from the skin secretion of the Australian green and golden bell frog, Litoria aurea

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-83

  Chen, Tianbao ^a   Scott, Christopher ^a   Tang, Lijun ^b   Zhou, Mei ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Antimicrobial; Cloning; Mass spectrometry; Peptide

Indexed keywords

AUREIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; AMIDATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DRUG STRUCTURE; FREEZE DRYING; FROG; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; LITORIA AUREA; LITORIA RANIFORMIS;

EID: 13844254284     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2004.12.022     Document Type: Article

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