Design and expression of a retro doublet of cecropin with enhanced activity

Electronic Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Díaz, Mauricio ^a   Arenas, Gloria ^a   Marshall, Sergio H ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Escherichia coli; Expression

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CELLS; CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MONOMERS; PEPTIDES;

CECROPIN; CODING SEQUENCE; DOUBLET ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES (DRAMPS);

GENE EXPRESSION;

CECROPIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 44349130398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07173458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2225/vol11-issue2-fulltext-4     Document Type: Article

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