Antimicrobial peptides from diverse families isolated from the skin of the Asian frog, Rana grahami

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2111-2117

  Conlon, J Michael ^a   Al Ghaferi, Nadia ^a   Abraham, Bency ^a   Jiansheng, Hu ^b   Cosette, Pascal ^c   Leprince, Jérôme ^c   Jouenne, Thierry ^c   Vaudry, Hubert ^c  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Brevinin; Esculentin; Frog skin; Nigrocin

Indexed keywords

BREVININ 1GRA; BREVININ 1GRC; BREVININ 2GRA; BREVININ 2GRB; ESCULENTIN 1GRA; LYSINE; NIGROCIN 2GRA; NIGROCIN 2GRB; NIGROCIN 2GRC; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FROG; HEMOLYSIS; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RANA GRAHAMI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RANIDAE; SKIN;

ANURA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RANA GRAHAMI; RANIDAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33746902394     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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