Snake venom-like waprin from the frog of Ceratophrys calcarata contains antimicrobial function

Gene

Volumn 514, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 99-104

  Liu, Daixi ^a   Wang, Yuwei ^a   Wei, Lin ^a   Ye, Huahu ^d   Liu, Huan ^b   Wang, Ling ^c   Liu, Rui ^a   Li, Dongsheng ^b   Lai, Ren ^a,b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c GUANGDONG OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Antimicrobial; Innate immunity; Skin; Venom

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN VENOM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CERATOXIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SNAKE VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANURA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN VENOMS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOLYSIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN; SNAKE VENOMS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUBTILISIN; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; CERATOPHRYS CALCARATA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84871524385     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

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