Antimicrobial peptides expressed in medicinal maggots of the blow fly Lucilia sericata show combinatorial activity against bacteria

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2508-2514

  Pöppel, Anne Kathrin ^a   Vogel, Heiko ^b   Wiesner, Jochen ^a   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a,c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTACIN; CECROPIN; DEFENSIN; DIPTERICIN; LUCENSOMYCIN; LUCIFENSIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROLINE RICH PEPTIDE; SARCOTOXIN; STOMOXYN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INTESTINE; LUCILIA SERICATA; MAGGOT; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA SEQUENCE; SALIVARY GLAND; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS GALLINARUM; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIPTERA; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; LARVA; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DIPTERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LARVA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84926374263     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05180-14     Document Type: Article

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