An antimicrobial peptide from the skin secretions of the mountain chicken frog Leptodactylus fallax (Anura:Leptodactylidae)

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 124, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 173-178

  Rollins Smith, Louise A ^a   King, Jay D ^b   Nielsen, Per F ^c   Sonnevend, Agnes ^d   Conlon, J Michael ^d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

^d UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Fallaxin; Gram negative bacteria; HPLC; Ranatuerin 2

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GLYCYLVALYLVALYLASPARTYLISOLEUCYLLEUCYLLYSYLGLYCYLALANYLALANYLLYSYL ASPARTYLISOLEUCYLALANYLGLYCYLHISTIDYLLEUCYLALANYLSERYLLYSYLVALYLMETHIONYL ASPARAGINYLLYSYLLEUCINAMIDE; NORADRENALIN; PEPTIDE; RANATUERIN 2CA; RANATUERIN 2CB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SCREENING; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FROG; GENE DUPLICATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEPTODACTYLUS FALLAX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN SECRETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN;

ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALLAX; GALLUS GALLUS; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; LEPTODACTYLUS; LEPTODACTYLUS FALLAX; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 8444240127     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2004.07.013     Document Type: Article

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