Unravelling the Skin Secretion Peptides of the Gliding Leaf Frog, Agalychnis spurrelli (Hylidae)

Autor: Carolina Proaño-Bolaños, Ailín Blasco-Zúñiga, José Rafael Almeida, Lei Wang, Miguel Angel Llumiquinga, Miryan Rivera, Mei Zhou, Tianbao Chen, Chris Shaw

Publikováno v: Biomolecules, Vol 9, Iss 11, p 667 (2019)

Frog skin secretions contain medically-valuable molecules, which are useful for the discovery of new biopharmaceuticals. The peptide profile of the skin secretion of Agalychnis spurrelli has not been investigated; therefore, the structural and biolog

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An experimental protocol for molecular biology lab at an Amazonian University

Autor: Fernando Valdivieso‐Rivera, José Rafael Almeida, Carolina Proaño‐Bolaños

Publikováno v: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 50:326-333

Laboratory-based practical classes are an essential component in teaching molecular biology for undergraduate students. Universidad Regional Amazonica Ikiam is a higher education institution located in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, a high biodive

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https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21612

Picturins and Pictuseptins, two novel antimicrobial peptide families from the skin secretions of the Chachi treefrog, Boana picturata

Autor: Giovanna Morán-Marcillo, Verónica Sánchez Hinojosa, Nina Espinosa de los Monteros-Silva, Ailín Blasco-Zúñiga, Miryan Rivera, Renato E. Naranjo, José Rafael Almeida, Lei Wang, Mei Zhou, Tianbao Chen, Chris Shaw, Carolina Proaño-Bolaños

Publikováno v: Repositorio Universidad Regional Amazónica
Universidad Regional Amazónica
instacron:IKIAM
Morán-Marcillo, G, Hinojosa, V S, Monteros-Silva, N E D L, Blasco-Zúñiga, A, Rivera, M, Naranjo, R E, Almeida, J R, Wang, L, Zhou, M, Chen, T, Shaw, C & Proaño-Bolaños, C 2022, ' Picturins and Pictuseptins, two novel antimicrobial peptide families from the skin secretions of the Chachi treefrog, Boana picturata ', Journal of proteomics, vol. 264, 104633 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2022.104633

The Imbabura treefrog (Boana picturata) is an underexplored source of bioactive peptides. The combination of molecular cloning and mass spectrometry allowed us to identify three new peptide families, named "Picturins" (PTR), "Pictuseptins" (PTS), and

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http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/577