Antimicrobial peptides and alytesin are co-secreted from the venom of the Midwife toad, Alytes maurus (Alytidae, Anura): Implications for the evolution of frog skin defensive secretions

Toxicon

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 967-981

  König, Enrico ^a   Zhou, Mei ^b   Wang, Lei ^b   Chen, Tianbao ^b   Bininda Emonds, Olaf R P ^a   Shaw, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alyteserin; Bombesin related peptides; Cytolytic peptides; Host defence peptides; Innate immune system

Indexed keywords

ALYTESERIN 1MA; ALYTESERIN 1MB; ALYTESERIN 2MA; ALYTESERIN 2MB; ALYTESIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM;

ALYTE MAURUS; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANURA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; FEMALE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN SECRETION; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN; VENOMS;

ALYTES; ALYTES MAURUS; ALYTES OBSTETRICANS; AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BOMBINA; BOMBINATORIDAE;

EID: 84864513440     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2012.06.015     Document Type: Article

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