Identification of antimicrobial peptides from teleosts and anurans in expressed sequence tag databases using conserved signal sequences

FEBS Journal

Volumn 279, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 724-736

  Tessera, Valentina ^a   Guida, Filomena ^a   Juretiä, Davor ^b   Tossi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

AMP; anuran; EST; signal sequence; teleost

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMPHIBIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANURAN; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HELIX; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; HEMOLYSIS; INTRON; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TELEOST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANURA; BACTERIA; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTES; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FISHES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); TELEOSTEI;

EID: 84857654624     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08463.x     Document Type: Article

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