Amphibian skin peptides and their corresponding cDNAs from single lyophilized secretion samples: Identification of novel brevinins from three species of Chinese frogs

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-48

  Chen, Tianbao ^a,b   Li, Long ^a   Zhou, Mei ^b   Rao, Pingfan ^a   Walker, Brian ^b   Shaw, Chris ^b  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Cloning; Mass spectrometry; Peptide; Venom

Indexed keywords

BREVININ 1P; BREVININ 1S; BREVININ 1V; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA LIBRARY; DRUG ISOLATION; FREEZE DRYING; FROG; FUNGAL STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SKIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RANIDAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; ODORRANA; POSIBACTERIA; RANA BREVIPODA POROSA; RANA PLANCYI; RANA SCHMACKERI;

EID: 30344476703     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2005.06.024     Document Type: Article

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