Discovery of six families of fungal defensin-like peptides provides insights into origin and evolution of the CSαβ defensins

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 828-838

  Zhu, Shunyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fungi; Gene duplication; Gene loss; Innate immunity; Protein scaffold

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN; ANTIBACTERIAL ANCIENT INVERTEBRATE TYPE DEFENSIN; ANTIBACTERIAL CLASSICAL INSECT TYPE DEFENSIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA DEFENSIN; CYSTEINE; DEFENSIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; BIOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC LINE; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALPHA-DEFENSINS; ANIMALS; BETA-DEFENSINS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUNGI/METAZOA GROUP; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 34848836028     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2007.06.354     Document Type: Article

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