Purification, characterization, and sequencing of antimicrobial peptides, Cy-AMP1, Cy-AMP2, and Cy-AMP3, from the Cycad (Cycas revoluta) seeds

Peptides

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2110-2117

  Yokoyama, Seiya ^a   Kato, Kouji ^a   Koba, Atsuko ^a   Minami, Yuji ^a   Watanabe, Keiichi ^b   Yagi, Fumio ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial activity; Chitin binding domain; Cycas revoluta; nsLTP; Plant defensin

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE 1; ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE 2; ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE 3; CYSTEINE; GLYCINE; LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CYCAS; DRUG PURIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIA; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYCAS; FUNGI; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

CYCADOPSIDA; CYCAS REVOLUTA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 55949098106     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2008.08.007     Document Type: Article

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