Evolution of ASABF (Ascaris suum antibacterial factor)-type antimicrobial peptides in nematodes: Putative rearrangement of disulfide bonding patterns

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1147-1150

  Minaba, Masaomi ^a   Ueno, Satoshi ^a,b   Pillai, Ajitha ^a   Kato, Yusuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

CS ; Defensin; Expression profile; Innate immunity; Invertebrate; Parasite; Phylogeny; Pig roundworm

Indexed keywords

ASCARIS SUUM ANTIBACTERIAL FACTOR TYPE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; CYSTEINE; CYSTINE; DEFENSIN; PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCARIDOIDEA; DISULFIDE BOND; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASCARIDIDA; ASCARIS SUUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; RHABDITIDA; SUIDAE;

EID: 68349110726     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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