An exceptional salt-tolerant antimicrobial peptide derived from a novel gene family of haemocytes of the marine invertebrate Ciona intestinalis

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 416, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-75

  Fedders, Henning ^a   Michalek, Matthias ^a   Grötzinger, Joachim ^a   Leippe, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Ciona intestinalis; Innate immunity; Peptide membrane interaction; Tunicate; Univascuolar refractile non refractile granulocyte

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; PEPTIDE-MEMBRANE INTERACTION; TUNICATE; UNIVASCUOLAR REFRACTILE/NON-REFRACTILE GRANULOCYTE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANES; DRUG INTERACTIONS; LIPOSOMES; MAMMALS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; POLYPEPTIDES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION;

AMINES;

LIPOSOME; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BLOOD CELL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRANULOCYTE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAMMAL; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALT TOLERANCE; UPREGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HEMOLYSIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELL MEMBRANE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HEMOCYTES; HEMOLYSIS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIPOSOMES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHEEP; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 56049083976     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20080398     Document Type: Article

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