Antibacterial peptides of the moth Galleria mellonella

• Authors: Paweł Mak , Dorota Chmiel , Grzegorz J Gacek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The work describes purification and biochemical characterization of two inducible antimicrobial peptides from the hemolymph of Galleria mellonella. The peptides were isolated by a sequence of reversed-phase chromatography steps from the hemolymph of larvae immunized with viable bacteria. The first peptide is a member of the cecropin family while the second one is rich in proline residues and has a unique sequence.

Keywords

EN

antibacterial peptide; bacteriocin; insect immunity; hemolymph; cecropin

• Publisher: Polish Biochemical Society
• Journal: Acta Biochimica Polonica
• Year: 2001
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1191-1195

Dates

published

2001

received

2001-09-19

accepted

2001-11-19

Contributors

author

Paweł Mak

• Institute of Molecular Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

author

Dorota Chmiel

• Institute of Molecular Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

author

Grzegorz J Gacek

• Department of Invertebrate Immunology, Marie Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland

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