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| Destoumieux, Delphine; Bulet, Philippe; Loew, Damarys; Van Dorsselaer, Alain; Rodriguez, Jenny; Bachere, Evelyne. |
| We report here the isolation of three members of a new family of antimicrobial peptides from the hemolymph of shrimps Penaeus vannamei in which immune response has not been experimentally induced. The three molecules display antimicrobial activity against fungi and bacteria with a predominant activity against Gram-positive bacteria. The complete sequences of these peptides were determined by a combination of enzymatic cleavages, Edman degradation, mass spectrometry, and cDNA cloning using a hemocyte cDNA library. The mature molecules (50 and 62 residues) are characterized by an NH2-terminal domain rich in proline residues and a COOH-terminal domain containing three intramolecular disulfide bridges. One of these molecules is post-translationally modified by... |
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| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00335/44649/57344.pdf |
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