Screening and cloning of antimicrobial DNA sequences using a vital staining method

Gene

Volumn 430, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 132-139

  Cheng, Xiongying ^a   Liu, Guozhen ^b   Ye, Gongyin ^c   Wang, Haijiao ^b   Shen, Xiaojing ^c   Wu, Kechun ^a   Xie, Jiahua ^d   Altosaar, Illimar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic discovery; Antimicrobial peptide; Antimicrobial protein; Bacterial inhibition; DNA library screening; Expressional assay; Vital assay

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PUROINDOLINE B; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GROWTH INHIBITION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VITAL STAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC SCREENING; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PLANT PROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STAINING AND LABELING; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58049107090     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.10.017     Document Type: Article

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