The killing effect of antimicrobial peptides fungi
Was first discovered to have anti-fungal activity of antimicrobial peptides isolated from the skin of amphibians frogs the bombesin (Magainins), it is not only acting on C +, C-, fungi and protozoa also killing effect. Defensins are endogenous sterilization polypeptide in an animal cell, separated from the phagocytic cells, having a very broad antibacterial spectrum, is greater than the G-killing effect of the killing effect on the G+, it also acts on the fungi and some true nucleated cells. Cecropin A and its analogues such as cecropin - melittin hybrid peptide killing fungus has infected insects.
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