Host defense peptides in skin secretions of the Oregon spotted frog Rana pretiosa: Implications for species resistance to chytridiomycosis

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 644-649

  Conlon, J Michael ^a   Mechkarska, Milena ^a   Ahmed, Eman ^a   Coquet, Laurent ^b   Jouenne, Thierry ^b   Leprince, Jérôme ^c   Vaudry, Hubert ^c   Hayes, Marc P ^d   Padgett Flohr, Gretchen ^e  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Normandie Université   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^d WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^e SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Brevinin 1; Chytridiomycosis; Esculentin 2; Frog skin secretions; Ranatuerin 2; Temporin

Indexed keywords

BREVININ 1; ESCULENTIN 2; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RANATUERIN 2; TEMPORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FROG; HEMOLYSIS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OREGON SPOTTED FROG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMERANA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; RANA BOYLII; RANA PRETIOSA;

EID: 79952452918     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2011.01.017     Document Type: Article

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