Clavanins and styelins, alpha-helical antimicrobial peptides from the hemocytes of Styela clava

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2001:484:71-6. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4615-1291-2_7.

Authors

R I Lehrer¹, I H Lee, L Menzel, A Waring, C Zhao

Affiliation

¹ Molecular Host Defense Section, Dep't of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

PMID: 11419008
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-1291-2_7

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides / chemistry
Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides / genetics
Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides / isolation & purification*
Blood Proteins / isolation & purification
Cloning, Molecular
DNA, Complementary / genetics
Hemocytes / immunology
Molecular Sequence Data
Peptides
Proteins / isolation & purification
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
Urochordata / genetics
Urochordata / immunology*

Substances

Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides
Blood Proteins
DNA, Complementary
Peptides
Proteins
clavanin A
clavanin C
clavanin D
styelin A peptide, Styela clava
styelin B peptide, Styela clava
styelin C
styelin D
styelin E