Structural and functional characterization of N-terminally blocked peptides isolated from the venom of the social wasp Polybia paulista

Peptides

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2069-2078

  Ribeiro, Susan Pereira ^a   Mendes, Maria Anita ^a,b,c   Santos, Lucilene Delazari Dos ^a,b,c   Souza, Bibiana Monson De ^a,b,c   Marques, Maurício Ribeiro ^a,b,c   Azevedo Jr , Walter Filgueira De ^a,c   Palma, Mario Sergio ^a,b,c  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b Rio Claro SP Brazil   (Brazil)

^c FAPESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Inflammatory peptides; N terminally blocked peptides; Polybia paulista; Tandem mass spectrometry; Wasp venom toxins

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSERYLALANYLASPARTYLISOLEUCYLVALYLLYSYLLYSYLLEUCYLTRYPTOPNYLASPARTYL ASPARAGINYLPROLYLALANYLLEUCINAMINE; ACETYLSERYLVALYLASPARTYLMETHIONYLVALYLMETHIONYLLYSYLGLYCYLISOLEUCYLLYSYL LEUCYLTRYPTOPHYLPROLYLLEUCYLAMINE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHENYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WASP VENOM;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DEGRANULATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; HEMOLYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PURIFICATION; RAT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASP;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CELL DEGRANULATION; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MAST CELLS; PEPTIDES; RATS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

POLYBIA; POLYBIA PAULISTA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 9644279750     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2004.08.019     Document Type: Article

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