- proline, arginine, phenylalanine, glycine,
tryptophan abaecin and drosocin,
apidaecin, diptericin, and
attacin from insects,
prophenin from pigs, indolicidin...
- peptides. This
tandem repeat structure is also
found in the
honeybee AMP
apidaecin or
fruit fly Baramicin, and is
hypothesized as an
evolutionary mechanism...
- Gram-positive
bacteria and fungi. The cDNA of four
antibacterial peptide genes -
apidaecin, hymenoptaecin, abaecin, and
defensin - were
isolated and
cloned from...