Evolutionary selective trends of insect/mosquito antimicrobial defensin peptides containing cysteine-stabilized α/β motifs

Peptides

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-75

  Dassanayake, R S ^a   Silva Gunawardene, Y I N ^b   Tobe, S S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cs defensin; Evolution; Insect; Mosquito; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DEFENSIN; ISOPROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; COLEOPTERA; FLY; GENETIC SELECTION; HEMIPTERA; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYMENOPTERA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSQUITO; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALPHA-DEFENSINS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA-DEFENSINS; CULICIDAE; CYSTEINE; DEFENSINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 33845673319     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.09.022     Document Type: Article

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