Antimicrobial peptides from arachnid venoms and their microbicidal activity in the presence of commercial antibiotics

Journal of Antibiotics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-10

  Garcia, Francia ^a   Villegas, Elba ^b   Espino Solis, Gerardo Pavel ^a   Rodriguez, Alexis ^a   Paniagua Solis, Jorge F ^c,d   Sandoval Lopez, Gabriel ^c   Possani, Lourival D ^a   Corzo, Gerardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^c Laboratorios Silanes SA de CV   (Mexico)

^d Teraclón IDF ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CSS54 PEPTIDE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; LA47 PEPTIDE; MICROBICIDE; NOVOBIOCIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; SCORPION VENOM; SPIDER VENOM; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CENTRUROIDES SUFFUSUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEMOLYSIS; LACHESANA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORPION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPIDER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

EID: 84873850021     PISSN: 00218820     EISSN: 18811469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ja.2012.87     Document Type: Article

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