Cloning from tissue surrogates: Antimicrobial peptide (esculentin) cDNAs from the defensive skin secretions of Chinese ranid frogs

Genomics

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 638-644

  Chen, Tianbao ^a,b   Zhou, Mei ^b   Chen, Wei ^b   Lorimer, Joanne ^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; Skin secretion

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CECROPIN A; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESCULENTIN 1E; ESCULENTIN 1P; ESCULENTIN 1S; ESCULENTIN 1V; ESCULENTIN 2B; ESCULENTIN 2E; ESCULENTIN 2L; ESCULENTIN 2P; ESCULENTIN 2S; ESCULENTIN 2V; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DNA LIBRARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FROG; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RANIDAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SKIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RANA PLANCYI FUKIENENSIS; RANA SCHMACKERI; RANIDAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33646087190     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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