Computational analysis suggests beta-defensins are processed to mature peptides by signal peptidase

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 536-540

  Beckloff, Nicholas ^a   Diamond, Gill ^a  

^a RUTGERS SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Host defense; Innate immunity; Signal sequence

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TYPE I SIGNAL PEPTIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA-DEFENSINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 45749116474     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986608784567618     Document Type: Article

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