Stomach lysozymes of the three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus), an arboreal folivore from the Neotropics

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 808-819

  Pacheco, M Andreína ^a,b   Concepción, Juan Luís ^c   Rangel, José David Rosales ^b,c   Ruiz, Marie Christine ^a   Michelangeli, Fabián ^a   Domínguez Bello, María G ^d  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^c FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Affinity chromatography; Bacterial count; Bradypus variegatus; Lytic activity; MALDI TOF; Pre gastric fermentation; Protein purification; Sloth; Stomach lysozyme

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POUCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME RELEASE; FOLIVORE; HERBIVORE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IONIC STRENGTH; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RUMINANT STOMACH; SLOTH;

ARTIODACTYLA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYPODIDAE; BRADYPUS VARIEGATUS; SLOTHS;

EID: 34248527410     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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