A glycine-leucine-rich peptide structurally related to the plasticins from skin secretions of the frog Leptodactylus laticeps (Leptodactylidae)

Peptides

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 888-892

  Conlon, J Michael ^a   Abdel Wahab, Yasser H A ^b   Flatt, Peter R ^b   Leprince, Jérôme ^c   Vaudry, Hubert ^c   Jouenne, Thierry ^c   Condamine, Eric ^c  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Frog skin; Leptodactylidae; Ocellatin; Phyllomedusinae; Plasticin

Indexed keywords

GLYCYLLEUCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME RELEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FROG; HEMOLYSIS; INSULIN RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EYE PROTEINS; GLYCINE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; INSULIN; LEUCINE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANURA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYLIDAE; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; LEPTODACTYLUS LATICEPS; PHYLLOMEDUSINAE; RATTUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 67349147008     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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