The antimicrobial peptides piscidins are stored in the granules of professional phagocytic granulocytes of fish and are delivered to the bacteria-containing phagosome upon phagocytosis

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1531-1538

  Mulero, Iván ^a   Noga, Edward J ^b   Meseguer, José ^a   García Ayala, Alfonsa ^a   Mulero, Victoriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidophilic granulocytes; Evolution; Mast cells; Phagocytosis; Piscidins

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; PISCIDIN DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FISH; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GRANULOCYTE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMPHIBIA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PERCIFORMES; PISCES;

EID: 49649112856     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2008.05.015     Document Type: Article

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