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INSECT DEFENSINS

Family of little (30-35 residue) cysteine wealthy cationic proteins found in vertebrate phagocytes (notably the azurophil granules of neutrophils) and active against bacteria, fungi and enveloped viruses. May constitute up to 5% of the total protein. Insect defensins have some sequence homology with the vertebrate forms. This entry appears with alow from the Vocabulary of Cell and Molecular Biology
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