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Antibacterial factors in skin mucus of rabbitfishes
Author(s) -
Nagashima Y.,
Sendo A.,
Shimakura K.,
Shiomi K.,
Kobayashi T.,
Kimura B.,
Fujii T.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2001.tb02331.x
Subject(s) - biology , mucus , antibacterial activity , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , molecular mass , zoology , biochemistry , ecology , genetics , enzyme
Aqueous extracts from the skin mucus of two species of rabbitfishes Siganus fuscescens and S. guttatus showed antibacterial activity against gram‐negative bacteria. Stability tests and chromatographic analyses suggested that the S. fuscescens antibacterial factor is an acidic glycoprotein with a molecular mass of 400 kDa.