Antibacterial hemoglobin peptides in human menstrual blood

Peptides

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1839-1847

  Mak, Paweł ^a   Wójcik, Kinga ^a   Wicherek, Łukasz ^a   Suder, Piotr ^a   Dubin, Adam ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antibacterial antimicrobial peptides; Female urogenital tract; Hemocidins; Hemoglobin; Innate immunity; Reproductive immunology

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; HEMOCIDIN; HEMOGLOBIN DERIVATIVE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENSTRUATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NULLIPARA; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; VAGINA; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 6344252671     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2004.06.015     Document Type: Article

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