Novel frenatins from the skin of the Australasian giant white-lipped tree frog, Litoria infrafrenata: Cloning of precursor cDNAs and identification in defensive skin secretion

Peptides

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2445-2451

  Zhou, Mei ^a   Chen, Tianbao ^a   Walker, Brian ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Antimicrobial peptide; Cloning; Mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FRENATIN; PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMPHIBIAN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; FREEZE DRYING; FROG; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LYOPHILISATE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION; ANIMAL; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SECRETION; SKIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; HYLIDAE; LITORIA; LITORIA INFRAFRENATA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHYLLOMEDUSA;

AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; SKIN;

EID: 27944499842     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2005.05.019     Document Type: Article

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