Amphibian skin: A promising resource for antimicrobial peptides

Sequence and specificity of two antibacterial proteins involved in insect immunity

1981 • 1,358 citations

PEPTIDES FROM FROG SKIN

1990 • 577 citations

Antibacterial peptides: Key components needed in immunity

1991 • 570 citations

Indolicidin, a novel bactericidal tridecapeptide amide from neutrophils.

1992 • 530 citations

Primary structures of three human neutrophil defensins.

1985 • 529 citations

Tachyplesin, a class of antimicrobial peptide from the hemocytes of the horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus). Isolation and chemical structure.

1988 • 526 citations

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

1983 • 451 citations

Apidaecins: antibacterial peptides from honeybees.

1989 • 445 citations

[Sequence analysis of melittin from tryptic and peptic degradation products].

1967 • 381 citations

Antibiotic peptides as mediators of innate immunity

1992 • 345 citations

Amino acid sequence of PR‐39

1991 • 343 citations

Sequenzanalyse des Melittins aus den tryptischen und peptischen Spaltstücken

1967 • 332 citations

Isolation, amino acid sequence and synthesis of dermaseptin, a novel antimicrobial peptide of amphibian skin

1991 • 305 citations

Structure and bactericidal activity of an antibiotic dodecapeptide purified from bovine neutrophils.

1988 • 272 citations

The chemistry of poisons in amphibian skin.

1995 • 265 citations

Brevinin-1 and -2, unique antimicrobial peptides from the skin of the frog, Rana brevipoda porsa

1992 • 263 citations

Antimicrobial peptides from skin secretions of Rana esculenta. Molecular cloning of cDNAs encoding esculentin and brevinins and isolation of new active peptides.

1994 • 229 citations

Biosynthesis and degradation of peptides derived from Xenopus laevis prohormones

1987 • 211 citations

Antimicrobial properties of peptides from Xenopus granular gland secretions

1988 • 209 citations

D-Alanine in the Frog Skin Peptide Dermorphin Is Derived from L-Alanine in the Precursor

1987 • 207 citations

Active polypeptides of the amphibian skin and their synthetic analogues

1973 • 203 citations

Ranalexin. A novel antimicrobial peptide from bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) skin, structurally related to the bacterial antibiotic, polymyxin.

1994 • 200 citations

Isolation and structure of novel defensive peptides from frog skin

1994 • 185 citations

Ranalexin. A novel antimicrobial peptide from bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) skin, structurally related to the bacterial antibiotic, polymyxin.

1994 • 171 citations

Antimicrobial Peptides from the Skin of a Korean Frog, Rana rugosa

1994 • 166 citations

Recombinant DNA procedures for producing small antimicrobial cationic peptides in bacteria

1993 • 165 citations

Bombinin-like peptides with antimicrobial activity from skin secretions of the Asian toad, Bombina orientalis.

1991 • 146 citations

Antibacterial and haemolytic peptides containing D-alloisoleucine from the skin of Bombina variegata.

1993 • 141 citations

A family of bombinin‐related peptides from the skin of Bombina variegata

1991 • 134 citations

Apidaecin-Type Peptide Antibiotics Function through a Nonporeforming Mechanism Involving Stereospecificity

1994 • 127 citations

Isolierung und Strukturaufkl�rung eines h�molytisch wirkenden Polypeptides aus dem Abwehrsekret europ�ischer Unken

1970 • 88 citations

Precursors of vertebrate peptide antibiotics dermaseptin b and adenoregulin have extensive sequence identities with precursors of opioid peptides dermorphin, dermenkephalin, and deltorphins.

1994 • 66 citations

Antimicrobial peptides (Ciba Foundation Symposium 186)

1995 • 52 citations

Peptides from Australian frogs. Structures of the caerins and caeridin 1 from Litoria splendida

1992 • 44 citations

Peptides from australian frogs. Structures of the caeridins from Litoria caerulea

1993 • 20 citations