Chemical and biological characterization of four new linear cationic α-helical peptides from the venoms of two solitary eumenine wasps

Toxicon

Volumn 57, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1081-1092

  Rangel, Marisa ^a   dos Santos Cabrera, Marcia Perez ^b   Kazuma, Kohei ^c   Ando, Kenji ^c   Wang, Xiaoyu ^c   Kato, Manabu ^d   Nihei, Ken ichi ^e   Hirata, Izaura Yoshico ^f   Cross, Tyra J ^g   Garcia, Angélica Nunes ^a   Faquim Mauro, Eliana L ^a   Franzolin, Marcia Regina ^a   Fuchino, Hiroyuki ^h   Mori Yasumoto, Kanami ⁱ   Sekita, Setsuko ⁱ   Kadowaki, Makoto ^c   Satake, Motoyoshi ^c   Konno, Katsuhiro ^c  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^d Yamada Apiculture Center Inc   (Japan)

^e UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION   (Japan)

ⁱ TOKUSHIMA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphipathic helix structure; Antimicrobial activity; Linear cationic helical peptide; Solitary wasp

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; AZOLECTIN; DODECYL SULFATE SODIUM; EUMENININE MASTOPARAN AF; EUMENININE MASTOPARAN EF; EUMENININE MASTOPARAN ER; EUMENITIN F; EUMENITIN R; INSECT VENOM; MAST CELL DEGRANULATING PEPTIDE; TRIFLUOROETHANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SCREENING; EUMENES FRATERCULUS; EUMENES RUBROFEMORATUS; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOLID PHASE SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATIONS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; VENOMS; WASPS;

EUMENES; MEGASCOLIA FLAVIFRONS;

EID: 79956338547     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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