Identification, characterization and expression of a defensin-like antifungal peptide from the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 297-305

  Wang, Z Z ^a   Shi, M ^a   Ye, X Q ^a   Chen, M Y ^a   Chen, X X ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

antifungal peptide; Bemesia tabaci; defensin like peptide; innate immune response

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEFENSIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEFENSINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; HEMIPTERA; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALEYRODIDAE; BEMISIA TABACI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84877583535     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imb.12021     Document Type: Article

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