Novel antimicrobial peptides from the venom of the eusocial bee Halictus sexcinctus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) and their analogs

Amino Acids

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 763-775

  Monincová, Lenka ^a,b   Buděšínský, Miloš ^a   Slaninová, Jiřina ^a   Hovorka, Oldřich ^a   Cvačka, Josef ^a   Voburka, Zdeněk ^a   Fučík, Vladimír ^a   Borovičková, Lenka ^a   Bednárová, Lucie ^a   Straka, Jakub ^b   Čeřovský, Václav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Analogs; Antimicrobial peptides; CD spectroscopy; Hemolytic activity; NMR spectroscopy; Wild bee venom

Indexed keywords

ANOPLIN; BEE VENOM; HALICTINE 1; HALICTINE 1 1; HALICTINE 1 2; HALICTINE 1 3; HALICTINE 1 4; HALICTINE 1 5; HALICTINE 1 6; HALICTINE 1 7; HALICTINE 1 8; HALICTINE 1 9; HALICTINE 2; HALICTINE 2 1; HALICTINE 2 10; HALICTINE 2 2; HALICTINE 2 3; HALICTINE 2 4; HALICTINE 2 5; HALICTINE 2 6; HALICTINE 2 7; HALICTINE 2 8; HALICTINE 2 9; INDOLICIDIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; WATER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; HEMOLYSIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ERYTHROCYTE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; BACTERIA; BEE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIA; BEE VENOMS; BEES; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RATS;

APOIDEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HALICTIDAE; HALICTUS SEXCINCTUS; HYMENOPTERA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 77956928526     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-010-0519-1     Document Type: Article

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