Variety of antimicrobial peptides in the Bombina maxima toad and evidence of their rapid diversification

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1220-1229

  Lee, Wen Hui ^a   Li, Yan ^a,b   Lai, Ren ^a   Li, Sha ^a,c   Zhang, Yun ^a   Wang, Wen ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Bombina maxima; Rapid diversification

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIVER; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SKIN; TOAD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SKIN;

EID: 17444409673     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eji.200425615     Document Type: Article

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