Acaloleptins A: Inducible antibacterial
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Morikazu Imamura; Sugino Wada; Nobuo Koizumi; Tomoyuki Kadotani; Katsuro Yaoi; R
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We purified and characterized three structurally related antibacterial peptides with a molecular mass of 8 kDa (acaloleptins A1, A2, and A3) from the hemolymph of immunized larvae of the Udo longicorn beetle, Acalolepta luxuriosa. These peptides have the same 6 N-terminal amino acid residues and sho