Novel brevinins from Chinese piebald odorous frog (Huia schmackeri) skin deduced from cloned biosynthetic precursors

Peptides

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1456-1460

  Quan, Zhenzhen ^a   Zhou, Mei ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Chen, Tianbao ^a   Walker, Brian ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREVININ 1HS1; BREVININ 1HS2; BREVININ 2HS1; BREVININ 2HS2; BREVININ 2HS3; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; HUIA SCHMACKERI; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SKIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RANIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; HUIA (PROPER); RANA SCHMACKERI;

EID: 47649115095     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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