Functional divergence among silkworm antimicrobial peptide paralogs by the activities of recombinant proteins and the induced expression profiles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Wanying ^a   Cheng, Tingcai ^b   Ye, Mingqiang ^a,e   Deng, Xiaojuan ^a   Yi, Huiyu ^a   Huang, Yadong ^d   Tan, Xiang ^c   Han, Dong ^a   Wang, Bo ^c   Xiang, Zhonghuai ^c   Cao, Yang ^a   Xia, Qingyou ^b,c  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CECROPIN; GLOVERIN; MORICIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BMCECB6 GENE; BMCECD GENE; BMMOR GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); SILKWORM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRAFILTRATION;

BOMBYX MORI;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 79953191085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018109     Document Type: Article

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