Journal of Biological Chemistry
Protein Structure and FoldingCharacterization of a Defensin from the Oyster Crassostrea gigas: RECOMBINANT PRODUCTION, FOLDING, SOLUTION STRUCTURE, ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITIES, AND GENE EXPRESSION*
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This study was part of a collaborative project supported by the European Commission, DG XII, in the program International Co-operation with Developing Countries, INCO-DC, Contract ICA4-CT-2001-10023 (IMMUNAQUA). Work in the authors' laboratories was supported in part by the Ifremer, the CNRS, the INSERM, and the University of Montpellier II and Caen. This study was also part of a French program MOREST funded by Ifremer, the Regions Basse-Normandie, Bretagne, Pays de la Loire and Poitou-Charentes and by the Conseil Général du Calvados. Atheris Laboratories was supported by the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science contract 02.0360. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBank™/EBI Data Bank with accession number(s) AJ565499 and CAJ19280.
The atomic coordinates and structure factors (code 2B68) have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (http://www.rcsb.org/).
The on-line version of this article (available at http://www.jbc.org) contains Table S1.
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Both authors contributed equally to this work.
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Financially supported by the Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie, Agence de l'Eau Seine Normandie and FEDER 4474 (program PROMESSE).
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Present address: Ecologie microbienne des insectes et interactions hôte-pathogène, UMR INRA Université de Montpellier II, 2 Place E. Bataillon, CC80, F-34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France.