Antimicrobial peptides from the venoms of Vespa bicolor Fabricius

Peptides

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1887-1892

  Chen, Wenhu ^a,b   Yang, Xinbo ^a,c   Yang, Xiaolong ^a   Zhai, Lei ^a   Lu, Zekuan ^a   Liu, Jingze ^a   Yu, Haining ^a  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

^c YANTAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Chemotactic peptide; Mastoparan; Vespa bicolor; Wasp venom

Indexed keywords

MASTOPARAN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; WASP VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DRUG PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIS; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RABBITS; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

FUNGI; VESPA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 54049143207     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2008.07.018     Document Type: Article

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