The mastoparanogen from wasp

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3053-3057

  Xu, Xueqing ^a,c   Yang, Hailong ^a,d   Yu, Haining ^b   Li, Jianxu ^a,c   Lai, Ren ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d JIANGXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

G protein; Mastoparan; Mastoparanogen; Precursor; Vespa magnifica; Wasp venom

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOLEUCYLASPARAGINYLLEUCYLLYSYLALANYLISOLEUCYLALANYLALANYLLEUCYLALANYL LYSYLLYSYLLEUCYLLEUCYLGLYCINE; MASTOPARANOGEN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; TETRADECAPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WASP VENOM;

ACIDITY; AMIDATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VESPA MAGNIFICA; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; VESPA MAGNIFICA;

EID: 33750961771     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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