A novel antifungal peptide designed from the primary structure of a natural antimicrobial peptide purified from Argopecten purpuratus hemocytes

Peptides

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1405-1411

  Arenas, Gloria ^a,b   Guzmán, Fanny ^a,b   Cárdenas, Constanza ^a,b   Mercado, Luis ^a,b   Marshall, Sergio H ^a,b,c  

^a Facultad de Ciencias   (Chile)

^b NBC Núcleo de Biotecnología Curauma ^*  (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Chemical design; Chemical synthesis; In vitro antifungal activity; Scallop hemocytes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIFUNGAL PEPTIDE; EPITOPE; PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; AQUACULTURE; ARGOPECTEN PURPURATUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FISH; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PISCICULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SAPROLEGNIA; SCALLOP; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SURFACE CHARGE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HEMOCYTES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PECTINIDAE; PEPTIDES; SALMONIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARGOPECTEN PURPURATUS; FUNGI;

EID: 67650361680     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.05.019     Document Type: Article

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