Skin secretions of Rana saharica frogs reveal antimicrobial peptides esculentins-1 and -1B and brevinins-1E and -2EC with novel insulin releasing activity

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Marenah, L ^a   Flatt, P R ^a   Orr, D F ^a   Shaw, C ^a   Abdel Wahab, Y H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREVENIN 1E; BREVENIN 2EC; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ESCULENTIN 1; ESCULENTIN 1B; GLUCOSE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INSULIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FROG; INCUBATION TIME; INSULIN LIKE ACTIVITY; INSULIN RELEASE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN SECRETION; SKIN SURFACE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELL LINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RANIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 31544471813     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.1.06293     Document Type: Article

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