Functional characterization of two defensin isoforms of the hard tick Ixodes ricinus

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chrudimská, Tereza ^a,b   Slaninová, Jiřina ^c   Rudenko, Nataliia ^b   Růžek, Daniel ^a,b   Grubhoffer, Libor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DEFENSIN; DEFENSIN 1; DEFENSIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ISOPROTEIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IXODES RICINUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; YEAST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL ANATOMY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; VIRUS;

IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DEFENSINS; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; IXODES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; VIRUSES; YEASTS;

EID: 79955104075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-4-63     Document Type: Article

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