Eumenitin, a novel antimicrobial peptide from the venom of the solitary eumenine wasp Eumenes rubronotatus

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2624-2631

  Konno, Katsuhiro ^a   Hisada, Miki ^b   Naoki, Hideo ^c   Itagaki, Yasuhiro ^d   Fontana, Renato ^e   Rangel, Marisa ^a   Oliveira, Joacir Stolarz ^a   Cabrera, Marcia Perez dos Santos ^f   Neto, João Ruggiero ^a,f   Hide, Izumi ^g   Nakata, Yoshihiro ^g   Yasuhara, Tadashi ^h   Nakajima, Terumi ⁱ  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b SUNTORY INSTITUTE FOR BIOORGANIC RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c Tropical Technology Center   (Japan)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^f SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^g HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

ⁱ HOSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphipathic helix structure; Antimicrobial peptide; Cationic linear helical peptide; Eumenitin; Solitary wasp venom

Indexed keywords

CATION; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; EUMENITIN; LEUCYLASPARAGINYLLEUCYLLYSYLGLYCYLISOLEUCYLPHENYLALANYLLYSYLLYSYLVALYLAL ANYLSERYLLEUCYLLEUCYLTHREONINE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WASP VENOM;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; ERYTHROCYTE; EUMENES RUBRONOTATUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PERITONEUM MAST CELL; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SOLID PHASE SYNTHESIS; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

EUMENES; MEGASCOLIA FLAVIFRONS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33750041679     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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