Characterization of two linear cationic antimalarial peptides in the scorpion Mesobuthus eupeus

Biochimie

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 350-359

  Gao, Bin ^a   Xu, Jia ^b   del Carmen Rodriguez, Maria ^c   Lanz Mendoza, Humberto ^c   Hernández Rivas, Rosaura ^d   Du, Weihong ^b   Zhu, Shunyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Antiparasitic peptide; NMR structure; Plasmodium falciparum; RNA editing; Scorpion toxins

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL PEPTIDE; MAGAININ 2; MEUCIN 24; MEUCIN 25; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MESOBUTHUS EUPEUS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCORPION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS;

ANURA; MAMMALIA; MESOBUTHUS EUPEUS; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SCORPIONES;

EID: 77649182544     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: 61831638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2010.01.011     Document Type: Article

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