Molecular cloning and sequence analyses of preprotemporin mRNAs containing premature stop codons from extradermal tissues of Rana tagoi

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2124-2128

  Iwamuro, Shawichi ^a   Nakamura, Marico ^a   Ohnuma, Aya ^a   Conlon, J Michael ^b  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Rana tagoi; Temporin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PREPROTEMPORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FROG; HEMOLYSIS; KIDNEY; LIVER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANA TAGOI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; SMALL INTESTINE ABSORPTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOMACH; STOP CODON;

AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RANIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN;

ANURA; RANA TAGOI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33746882116     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.03.023     Document Type: Article

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