A fossil antibacterial peptide gives clues to structural diversity of cathelicidin-derived host defense peptides

FASEB Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-20

  Zhu, Shunyi ^a,b   Gao, Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Cetartiodactyla; Exon shuffling; Functional divergence; Gene duplication; Innate immunity; Sequence remodeling

Indexed keywords

CATHELICIDIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AMIDATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; FOSSIL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENE DUPLICATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; VERTEBRATES;

CETARTIODACTYLA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58249110406     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-114579     Document Type: Article

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