Antimicrobial peptide induction in the haemolymph of the Mexican scorpion Centruroides limpidus limpidus in response to septic injury

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1507-1519

  Rodriguez De La Vega R C ^a   Garcia B I ^a   D'Ambrosio, C ^b   Diego Garcia E ^a   Scaloni, A ^b   Possani, L D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Cysteine stabilized motif; Defensin; Haemolymph; Innate immunity; Scorpion

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEFENSIN; INSECT PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CENTRUROIDES LIMPIDUS LIMPIDUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOLYMPH; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SCORPION; SEPSIS;

CENTRUROIDES; CENTRUROIDES LIMPIDUS LIMPIDUS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 3042844277     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-004-4096-x     Document Type: Article

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