Two antimicrobial peptides from skin secretions of Rana grahami

Toxicon

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 459-464

  Xu, Xueqing ^a,c   Li, Jianxu ^a,c   Han, Yaoping ^a,d   Yang, Hailong ^a   Liang, Jianguo ^b   Lu, Qiuming ^a   Lai, Ren ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d CHANGSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Antimicrobial peptide; Grahamin; Rana grahami; Skin

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE GRAHAMIN 1; PEPTIDE GRAHAMIN 2; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; FROG; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PEPTIDES; RABBITS; RANIDAE; SKIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA GRAHAMI; RANA NIGROMACULATA;

EID: 33644842105     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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