Novel dermaseptin, adenoregulin and caerin homologs from the Central American red-eyed leaf frog, Agalychnis callidryas, revealed by functional peptidomics of defensive skin secretion

Biochimie

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1435-1441

  Wang, Lei ^a   Zhou, Mei ^a   McClelland, Ann ^a   Reilly, Aislinn ^a   Chen, Tianbao ^a   Gagliardo, Ron ^b   Walker, Brian ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a Medical Biology Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b Atlanta Botanical Garden   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Cloning; Mass spectrometry; Phyllomedusinae; Precursor

Indexed keywords

ADENOREGULIN; CAERIN; DERMASEPTIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGALYCHNIS CALLIDRYAS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FROG; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDOMICS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENOMICS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN;

AGALYCHNIS CALLIDRYAS; ANURA; LITORIA; MYOBATRACHIDAE; PHYLLOMEDUSINAE;

EID: 50949101227     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: 61831638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2008.04.016     Document Type: Article

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