Cyto-insectotoxins, a novel class of cytolytic and insecticidal peptides from spider venom

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 411, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 687-696

  Vassilevski, Alexander A ^a   Kozlov, Sergey A ^a   Samsonova, Olga V ^a   Egorova, Natalya S ^a   Karpunin, Dmitry V ^a   Pluzhnikov, Kirill A ^a   Feofanov, Alexei V ^a   Grishin, Eugene V ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Cytolytic peptide; Insecticide; Lachesana tarabaevi; Planar lipid bilayer; Spider toxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PEPTIDES; POSITIVE IONS; TOXICITY;

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; CYTOLYTIC PEPTIDE; LACHESANA TARABAEVI; PLANAR LIPID BILAYER; SPIDER TOXIN;

INSECTICIDES;

CYTOINSECTOTOXIN; CYTOINSECTOTOXIN CIT 1A; CYTOINSECTOTOXIN CIT 1B; CYTOINSECTOTOXIN CIT 1C; CYTOINSECTOTOXIN CIT 1D; CYTOINSECTOTOXIN CIT 1E; CYTOINSECTOTOXIN CIT 1F; CYTOINSECTOTOXIN CIT 1G; CYTOINSECTOTOXIN CIT 1H; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE; SPIDER VENOM; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; ERYTHROCYTE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSECT CELL; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; LACHESANA TARABAEVI; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID VESICLE; LYMPHOCYTE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPIDER; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLASSIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARANEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPIDER VENOMS;

EID: 42449129178     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20071123     Document Type: Article

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