Centrocins: Isolation and characterization of novel dimeric antimicrobial peptides from the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 959-968

  Li, Chun ^a   Haug, Tor ^a   Moe, Morten K ^a   Styrvold, Olaf B ^a   Stensvåg, Klara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Echinoderm extracts; Innate immunity; Intramolecular heterodimer; Marine bioprospecting; Sea urchin

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CENTROCIN 1; CENTROCIN 2; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCINE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG ISOLATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE SEQUENCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEA URCHIN; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 77954087548     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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