There are abundant antimicrobial peptides in brains of two kinds of Bombina toads

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1806-1815

  Liu, Rui ^a   Liu, Huan ^b   Ma, Yufang ^b   Wu, Jing ^b   Yang, Hailong ^b   Ye, Huahu ^c   Lai, Ren ^a,b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

amphibian; antimicrobial peptides; brain

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BOMBINA MAXIMA; BOMBINA MICRODELADIGITORA; BRAIN; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENOMICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION; TOAD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; HEMOLYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BOMBINA; BOMBINA MAXIMA; FUNGI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 79953699382     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: 15353907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr101285n     Document Type: Article

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