Isolation and characterisation of a new antimicrobial peptide from the skin of Xenopus laevis

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 510-515

  Hou, Feng ^a,b   Li, Jiping ^a,b   Pan, Pengpeng ^a,b   Xu, Jing ^a,b   Liu, Linna ^a,b   Liu, Wensen ^a,b   Song, Bocui ^a,b   Li, Nan ^a,b   Wan, Jiayu ^a,b   Gao, Hongwei ^a,b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control   (China)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; PGLa H; Skin; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; NATURAL PRODUCT; PENICILLIN G POTASSIUM; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL KILLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DRUG ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SKIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 80255138668     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: 18727913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2011.07.012     Document Type: Article

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