Kassorins: Novel innate immune system peptides from skin secretions of the African hyperoliid frogs, Kassina maculata and Kassina senegalensis

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 442-451

  Chen, Hang ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Zeller, Martin ^b,c   Hornshaw, Martin ^b,c   Wu, Youjia ^a   Zhou, Mei ^a   Li, Jia ^a   Hang, Xinxing ^a   Cai, Jiqun ^d   Chen, Tianbao ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC   (Germany)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^d CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Antimicrobial peptide; Chemotaxis; Innate immunity; Mast cell; Molecular cloning

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTACTIC PEPTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ETOPOSIDE; HISTAMINE; LATHERIN; LECTIN; PHENYLALANYLLEUCYLGLUTAMYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCYLLEUCYLASPARAGINYLTHREONYLGLYCYLLEUCYLLEUCINAMIDE; PHENYLALANYLLEUCYLGLYCYLGLYCYLISOLEUCYLLEUCYLASPARAGINYLTHREONYLISOLEUCYLTHREONYLGLYCINELEUCYLLEUCINAMIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RANASPUMIN; TEMPORIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMIDATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STRUCTURE; FROG; HISTAMINE RELEASE; INNATE IMMUNITY; KASSINA MACULATA; KASSINA SENEGALENSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PERITONEUM MAST CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT; SKIN SECRETION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AFRICA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PEPTIDES; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; URINARY BLADDER;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CAVIA; EQUIDAE; HYPEROLIIDAE; KASSINA MACULATA; KASSINA SENEGALENSIS; LEPTODACTYLUS; RATTUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 78650595676     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2010.09.018     Document Type: Article

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