Rapid identification of precursor cDNAs encoding five structural classes of antimicrobial peptides from pickerel frog (Rana palustris) skin secretion by single step "shotgun" cloning

Peptides

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1605-1610

  Zhou, Mei ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Owens, Damian E ^a   Chen, Tianbao ^a   Walker, Brian ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Cloning; Mass spectrometry; Peptide; Venom

Indexed keywords

BREVININ; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESCULENTIN; PALUSTRIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; RANATUERIN; TEMPORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPHIBIA; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; FROG; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEPTIDOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RANA PALUSTRIS; RANA VERSABILIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RANIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; RANA PALUSTRIS;

EID: 34547834166     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2007.07.019     Document Type: Article

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