Functional divergence of six isoforms of antifungal peptide Drosomycin in Drosophila melanogaster

Gene

Volumn 379, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 26-32

  Yang, Wan Ying ^a   Wen, Shuo Yang ^a   Huang, Ya Dong ^b   Ye, Ming Qiang ^a   Deng, Xiao Juan ^a   Han, Dong ^a   Xia, Qin You ^c   Cao, Yang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Antifungal peptide; Drosomycin; Drosophila melanogaster; Functional identification; Multigene family

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DROSOMYCIN; DROSOMYCIN LIKE C; DROSOMYCIN LIKE D; DROSOMYCIN LIKE E; DROSOMYCIN LIKE F; DROSOMYCIN LIKE G; DROSOMYCIN LIKE I; ISOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOGENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33747347594     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.03.017     Document Type: Article

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