Evidence for myxobacterial origin of eukaryotic defensins

Immunogenetics

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 949-954

  Zhu, Shunyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Comparative modeling; Defensin; Innate immunity; The syntrophic hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEFENSIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNITY; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYSTEINE; DEFENSINS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYXOCOCCALES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; MYXOCOCCALES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 36849005963     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-007-0259-x     Document Type: Article

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