Immunostimulating and Gram-negative-specific antibacterial cyclotides from the butterfly pea (Clitoria ternatea)

FEBS Journal

Volumn 283, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2067-2090

  Nguyen, Kim Ngan T ^a   Nguyen, Giang Kien Truc ^a   Nguyen, Phuong Quoc Thuc ^a   Ang, Koon Hwee ^a   Dedon, Peter C ^b   Tam, James P ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

antimicrobial peptide; cyclotide; cytokine; immunomodulatory; transcriptomic

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CLIOTIDE; CYCLOTIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; IMMUNOSTIMULATING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLITORIA TERNATEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG ISOLATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CLITORIA; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; IMMUNIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLITORIA; CYCLOTIDES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84964391251     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.13720     Document Type: Article

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