The chains of the heterodimeric amphibian skin antimicrobial peptide, distinctin, are encoded by separate messenger RNAs

Journal of Proteomics

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 245-253

  Evaristo, Geisa ^a   Pinkse, Martijn ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Zhou, Mei ^b   Wu, Youjia ^b   Wang, Hui ^b   Chen, Tianbao ^b   Shaw, Chris ^b   Verhaert, Peter ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amphibian skin peptides; CDNA cloning; Heterodimer; Homodimer; Intramolecular and intermolecular disulfide bonds; Peptidomics

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN PROTEIN; DISTINCTIN; HETERODIMER; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANURA; ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATION; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PHYLLOMEDUSA BURMEISTERI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN;

AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; AMPHIBIAN VENOMS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; PHYLLOMEDUSA; PHYLLOMEDUSA BURMEISTERI;

EID: 84872677977     PISSN: 18743919     EISSN: 18767737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2012.09.016     Document Type: Article

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