Characterization of a hymenoptaecin-like antimicrobial peptide in the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis

Process Biochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 139-146

  Gao, Bin ^a   Zhu, Shunyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Evolution; Hymenoptera; Innate immunity; Recombinant peptide

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO STRUCTURE; ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; AUTONOMOUS MODULE; CARBOXYL-TERMINAL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EVOLUTION; EXON SHUFFLING; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROPEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RANDOM COIL CONFORMATION; SHEET STRUCTURE; UPSTREAM REGION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; DICHROISM; PEPTIDES;

AMINES;

APOIDEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 71249145172     PISSN: 13595113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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