Origin and Functional Diversification of an Amphibian Defense Peptide Arsenal

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Roelants, Kim ^a   Fry, Bryan G ^b   Ye, Lumeng ^a   Stijlemans, Benoit ^a,c   Brys, Lea ^a,c   Kok, Philippe ^a   Clynen, Elke ^d   Schoofs, Liliane ^e   Cornelis, Pierre ^a   Bossuyt, Franky ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE CPF ST4; PEPTIDE CPF ST5; PEPTIDE CPF ST6; PEPTIDE CPF ST7; PEPTIDE LEVITIDE ST1; PEPTIDE LEVITIDE ST2; PEPTIDE MEGAININ ST1; PEPTIDE PFQA ST1; PEPTIDE PFQA ST2; PEPTIDE PGLA ST2; PEPTIDE PGLA ST3; PEPTIDE PLD ST1; PEPTIDE XPF ST1; PEPTIDE XPF ST4; PEPTIDE XPF ST5; PEPTIDE XPF ST6; PEPTIDE XPF ST7; PEPTIDE XPF ST8; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMP GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPF ST4 GENE; CPF ST5 GENE; CPF ST6 GENE; CPF ST7 GENE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HLP GENE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEGAININ ST1 GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDOMICS; PGLA ST2 GENE; PGLA ST3 GENE; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XENOPUS TROPICALIS; XPF ST1 GENE; XPF ST4 GENE; XPF ST5 GENE; XPF ST6 GENE; XPF ST7 GENE; XPF ST8 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN;

EID: 84884603621     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003662     Document Type: Article

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