Host-defense peptides from skin secretions of the tetraploid frogs Xenopus petersii and Xenopus pygmaeus, and the octoploid frog Xenopus lenduensis (Pipidae)

Peptides

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-43

  King, Jay D ^a   Mechkarska, Milena ^b   Coquet, Laurent ^c   Leprince, Jérôme ^c   Jouenne, Thierry ^c   Vaudry, Hubert ^c   Takada, Koji ^d   Conlon, J Michael ^b  

^a Rare Species Conservatory Foundation   (United States)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^d JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allopolyploidy; Antimicrobial peptide; Frog skin; Magainin; PGLa; Procaerulein; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

MAGAININ 1; MAGAININ 2; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; XENOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENCY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FROG; GENE SILENCING; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; IC 50; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SECRETION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS LENDUENSIS; XENOPUS PETERSII; XENOPUS PYGMAEUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CAERULEIN; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MAGAININS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; POLYPLOIDY; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SKIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; TETRAPLOIDY; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANURA; PIPIDAE; SILURANA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; XENOPODINAE; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PETERSII; XENOPUS PYGMAEUS;

EID: 84855769715     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: 18735169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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