Functional analysis of four processing products from multiple precursors encoded by a lebocin-related gene from Manduca sexta

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 638-647

  Rayaprolu, Subrahmanyam ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Kanost, Michael R ^b   Hartson, Steven ^a   Jiang, Haobo ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Convertase; Hemolymph protein; Insect immunity; Variable repeats

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONVERTASE; ENZYME; GENOMIC DNA; LEBOCIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME SIZE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYMPH; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRON; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MANDUCA SEXTA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 77649338217     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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