Elements of the granular gland peptidome and transcriptome persist in air-dried skin of the South American orange-legged leaf frog, Phyllomedusa hypocondrialis

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2129-2136

  Chen, Tianbao ^a   Zhou, Mei ^a   Gagliardo, Ron ^b   Walker, Brian ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Atlanta Botanical Garden   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian; cDNA; Cloning; Peptide; Skin

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DERMASEPTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; PHYLLOSEPTIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FROG; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PHYLLOMEDUSA HYPOCONDRIALIS; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRADYKININ; GENE LIBRARY; KININS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEOME; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; SOUTH AMERICA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; PHYLLOMEDUSA HYPOCHONDRIALIS; PHYLLOMEDUSINAE;

EID: 33746933811     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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