A family of brevinin-2 peptides with potent activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa from the skin of the Hokkaido frog, Rana pirica

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 135-141

  Conlon, J Michael ^a   Sonnevend, Ágnes ^a   Patel, Mahrendra ^a   Al Dhaheri, Khawla ^a   Nielsen, Per F ^b   Kolodziejek, Jolanta ^c   Nowotny, Norbert ^a,c   Iwamuro, Shawichi ^d   Pál, Tibor ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Brevinin 1; Ranatuerin 2; Temporin

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZTREONAM; BREVININ 2; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLADISTICS; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG POTENCY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FROG; HEMOLYSIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEMOLYSIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RANIDAE; SKIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ANURA; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RANA ORNATIVENTRIS; RANA PIRICA;

EID: 1542289781     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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