Ovochymase in amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri is an ovary-specific trypsin-like serine protease with an antibacterial activity

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1219-1228

  Gao, Kun ^a   Zhang, Shicui ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Amphioxus; Antibacterial activity; Branchiostoma; Lancelet; Ovochymase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OVOCHYMASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SOYBEAN TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HYDROLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL MATURATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA BELCHERI; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; GLYCINE MAX; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 69949099777     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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