Antimicrobial/cytolytic peptides from the venom of the North African scorpion, Androctonus amoreuxi: Biochemical and functional characterization of natural peptides and a single site-substituted analog

Peptides

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 291-299

  Almaaytah, Ammar ^a,b   Zhou, Mei ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Chen, Tianbao ^a   Walker, Brian ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Molecular cloning; Peptide; Scorpion; Venom

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PEPTIDE AAMAP S1; PHENYLALANYLLEUCYLPHENYLALANYLSERYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYLPROLYLHISTIDYLALANYLISOLEUCYLGLYCYLGLYCYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYLSERYLALANYLPHENYLALANYLLYSINAMIDE; PHENYLALANYLPROLYLPHENYLALANYLSERYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYLPROLYLHISTIDYLALANYLISOLEUCYLGLYCINEGLYCYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYLSERYLALANYLISOLEUCYLLYSINAMIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMIDATION; ANDROCTONUS AMOREUXI; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORPION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PEPTIDES; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANDROCTONUS AMOREUXI; CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SCORPIONES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84861184381     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: 18735169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2012.03.016     Document Type: Article

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