Purification and characterization of antimicrobial peptides from the Caribbean frog, Leptodactylus validus (Anura: Leptodactylidae)

Peptides

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1287-1292

  King, Jay D ^a   Leprince, Jérôme ^b   Vaudry, Hubert ^b   Coquet, Laurent ^b   Jouenne, Thierry ^b   Conlon, J Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Amphipathic helix; Antimicrobial; Frog skin; Ocellatin

Indexed keywords

OCELLATIN V1; OCELLATIN V2; OCELLATIN V3; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FROG; LEPTODACTYLUS VALIDUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; CARIBBEAN REGION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ANURA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; LEPTODACTYLUS VALIDUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 47649127611     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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