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Cong,Lina; Liang,Wenjing; Wu,Yao; Li,Cheng; Chang,Yihai; Dong,Liang; Song,Wanlin; Ma,Jun. |
Background The sea cucumber lysozyme belongs to the family of invertebrate lysozymes and is thought to be a key defense factor in protecting aquaculture animals against bacterial infection. Recently, evidence was found that the sea cucumber lysozyme exerts broad spectrum antimicrobial action in vitro against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, and it also has more potent antimicrobial activity independent of its enzymatic activity. To explore the antimicrobial role of this non-enzymatic lysozyme and model its structure to novel antimicrobial peptides, the peptide from the C-terminal amino acid residues 70-146 of the sea cucumber lysozyme in Stichopus japonicus (SjLys-C) was heterologously expressed in Escherichia coli Rosetta(DE3)pLysS. Results The... |
Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Affinity purification; Lysozyme peptide; Molecular modeling; Recombinant protein. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-34582014000600005 |
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Ma,Jun; He,Yehua; Hu,Zhongyi; Xu,Wentian; Xia,Jingxian; Guo,Cuihong; Lin,Shunquan; Chen,Chengjie; Wu,Chenghou; Zhang,Junli. |
Two somatic embryogenesis receptor-like kinase genes (identified as AcSERK1 and AcSERK2) have previously been characterized from pineapple (Ananas comosus). In this work, we describe the characterization of a third gene (AcSERK3) in this family. AcSERK3 had all the characteristic domains and shared extensive sequence homology with other plant SERKs. AcSERK3 expression was studied by in situ hybridization and quantitative real-time PCR to analyze its function. Intense in situ hybridization signals were observed only in single competent cells and competent cell clusters; no hybridization signal was detected in the subsequent stages of somatic embryogenesis. AcSERK3 was highly expressed in embryogenic callus compared to other organs, e.g., 20-80 fold more... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: AcSERK3; Autophosphorylation activity; Expression analysis; Prokaryotic expression; Somatic embryogenesis. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572014000400009 |
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