Chemical Synthesis and Enzymic Processing of Precursor Forms of Cecropins A and B

Signal sequences

1985 • 2,179 citations

Quantitative monitoring of solid-phase peptide synthesis by the ninhydrin reaction

1981 • 1,044 citations

Cell-Free Immunity in Insects

1987 • 742 citations

An SN2 deprotection of synthetic peptides with a low concentration of hydrofluoric acid in dimethyl sulfide: evidence and application in peptide synthesis

1983 • 545 citations

[39] Analytical disc gel electrophoresis

1971 • 496 citations

Insect immunity. Attacins, a family of antibacterial proteins from Hyalophora cecropia.

1983 • 451 citations

Insect Immunity: Isolation and Structure of Cecropin D and Four Minor Antibacterial Components from Cecropia Pupae

1982 • 427 citations

Yeast α factor is processed from a larger precursor polypeptide: The essential role of a membrane-bound dipeptidyl aminopeptidase

1983 • 403 citations

Identification in pituitary tissue of a peptide alpha-amidation activity that acts on glycine-extended peptides and requires molecular oxygen, copper, and ascorbic acid.

1983 • 363 citations

Synthesis of the antibacterial peptide cecropin A(1-33)

1982 • 330 citations

Synthesis, assembly into the cytoplasmic membrane, and proteolytic processing of the precursor of coliphage M13 coat protein.

1980 • 200 citations

N-Terminal analogs of cecropin A: synthesis, antibacterial activity, and conformational properties

1985 • 198 citations

Seventy-kilodalton heat shock proteins and an additional component from reticulocyte lysate stimulate import of M13 procoat protein into microsomes.

1988 • 187 citations

The isolation of homogeneous leader peptidase from a strain of Escherichia coli which overproduces the enzyme.

1982 • 179 citations

A p-methylbenzhydrylamine resin for improved solid-phase synthesis of peptide amides

1981 • 176 citations

Stepwise Cleavage of the Pro Part of Promelittin by Dipeptidylpeptidase IV

1980 • 157 citations

Aminopropyl glass and its p‐phenylene diisothiocyanate derivative, a new support in solid‐phase Edman degradation of peptides and proteins

1973 • 157 citations

Molecular cloning, cDNA sequencing, and chemical synthesis of cecropin B from Hyalophora cecropia.

1985 • 144 citations

M13 procoat and a pre-immunoglobulin share processing specificity but use different membrane receptor mechanisms.

1983 • 122 citations

Solid-phase synthesis of cecropin A and related peptides.

1983 • 118 citations

Import of frog prepropeptide GLa into microsomes requires ATP but does not involve docking protein or ribosomes.

1987 • 111 citations

Amino acid sequence of honeybee prepromelittin synthesized in vitro.

1978 • 91 citations

Molecular cloning of a cDNA and assignment of the C-terminal of sarcotoxin IA, a potent antibacterial protein of Sarcophaga peregrina

1986 • 80 citations

Import of honeybee prepromelittin into the endoplasmic reticulum: energy requirements for membrane insertion.

1988 • 76 citations

The structure of the gene for cecropin B, an antibacterial immune protein from Hyalophora cecropia

1988 • 59 citations

Effects on electrophoretic mobility and antibacterial spectrum of removal of two residues from synthetic sarcotoxin IA and addition of the same residues to cecropin B

1988 • 50 citations

Isolation of a dipeptidyl aminopeptidase, a putative processing enzyme, from skin secretion of Xenopus laevis

1986 • 42 citations

Insect immunity: cDNA clones coding for the precursor forms of cecropins A and D, antibacterial proteins from Hyalophora cecropia

1987 • 39 citations

Antifreeze protein genes of the winter flounder.

1984 • 35 citations