Jelleines:: a family of antimicrobial peptides from the Royal Jelly of honeybees (Apis mellifera)
Jelleines:: a family of antimicrobial peptides from the Royal Jelly of honeybees (Apis mellifera)
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DOI:
10.1016/j.peptides.2004.03.016
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发表时间:
2004-06-01
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3
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Palma, MS
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作者:
Fontana, R;Mendes, MA;Palma, MS
Four antimicrobial peptides were purified from Royal Jelly of honeybees, by using reverse phase-HPLC and sequenced by using Q-Tof-MS/MS: PFKLSLHL-NH2 (Jelleine-I), TPFKLSLHL-NH2 (Jelleine-II), EPFKLSLHL-NH2 (Jelleine-III), and TPFKLSLH-NH2 (Jelleine-IV). The peptides were synthesized on-solid phase, purified and submitted to different biological assays: antimicrobial activity, mast cell degranulating activity and hemolysis. The Jelleines-I-III presented exclusively antimicrobial activities against yeast, Gram+ and Gram- bacteria; meanwhile, Jelleine-IV was not active in none of the assays performed. These peptides do not present any similarity with the other antimicrobial peptides from the honeybees; they are produced constitutively by the workers and secreted into Royal Jelly. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.