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Penaeidins, a family of antimicrobial peptides from penaeid shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda) by Destoumieux, D, Munoz, M, Bulet, P, Bachère, E

“…The production of antimicrobial peptides represents a first-line host defense mechanism of innate immunity that is widespread in nature. Only recently such…”
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Crustacean immunity. Antifungal peptides are generated from the C terminus of shrimp hemocyanin in response to microbial challenge by Destoumieux-Garzón, D, Saulnier, D, Garnier, J, Jouffrey, C, Bulet, P, Bachère, E

“…We report here the isolation from plasma of two penaeid shrimp species of novel peptides/polypeptides with exclusive antifungal activities. A set of three…”
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Insect immunity. Constitutive expression of a cysteine-rich antifungal and a linear antibacterial peptide in a termite insect by Lamberty, M, Zachary, D, Lanot, R, Bordereau, C, Robert, A, Hoffmann, J A, Bulet, P

“…Two novel antimicrobial peptides, which we propose to name termicin and spinigerin, have been isolated from the fungus-growing termite Pseudacanthotermes…”
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PenBase, the shrimp antimicrobial peptide penaeidin database: Sequence-based classification and recommended nomenclature by Gueguen, Yannick, Garnier, Julien, Robert, Lorenne, Lefranc, Marie-Paule, Mougenot, Isabelle, de Lorgeril, Julien, Janech, Michael, Gross, Paul S., Warr, Gregory W., Cuthbertson, Brandon, Barracco, Margherita A., Bulet, Philippe, Aumelas, André, Yang, Yinshan, Bo, Dong, Xiang, Jianhai, Tassanakajon, Anchalee, Piquemal, David, Bachère, Evelyne

“…Antimicrobial peptides play a major role in innate immunity. The penaeidins, initially characterized from the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei, are a family of…”
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Interaction between Heat Shock Proteins and Antimicrobial Peptides by Otvos, Laszlo, O, Insug, Rogers, Mark E, Consolvo, Patricia J, Condie, Barry A, Lovas, Sandor, Bulet, Philippe, Blaszczyk-Thurin, Magdalena

“…Drosocin, pyrrhocoricin, and apidaecin, representing the short (18−20 amino acid residues) proline-rich antibacterial peptide family, originally isolated from…”
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Penaeidins, antimicrobial peptides with chitin-binding activity, are produced and stored in shrimp granulocytes and released after microbial challenge by Destoumieux, D, Muñoz, M, Cosseau, C, Rodriguez, J, Bulet, P, Comps, M, Bachère, E

“…Penaeidins are members of a new family of antimicrobial peptides isolated from a crustacean, which present both Gram-positive antibacterial and antifungal…”
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Immunopeptides in the defense reactions of Glossina morsitans to bacterial and Trypanosoma brucei brucei infections by Boulanger, N, Brun, R, Ehret-Sabatier, L, Kunz, C, Bulet, P

“…Several dipteran insects are vectors of parasites causing major human infectious diseases. Among these, the tsetse fly, Glossina spp., is responsible for the…”
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Insect immunity: septic injury of Drosophila induces the synthesis of a potent antifungal peptide with sequence homology to plant antifungal peptides by Fehlbaum, P, Bulet, P, Michaut, L, Lagueux, M, Broekaert, W F, Hetru, C, Hoffmann, J A

“…In response to a septic injury (pricking with a bacteria-soaked needle) larvae and adults of Drosophila produce considerable amounts of a 44-residue peptide…”
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Involvement of penaeidins in defense reactions of the shrimp Litopenaeus stylirostris to a pathogenic vibrio by Munoz, M, Vandenbulcke, F, Garnier, J, Gueguen, Y, Bulet, P, Saulnier, D, Bachère, E

“…The present study reports for the first time the involvement of an antimicrobial peptide in the defense reactions of a shrimp infected by a pathogenic Vibrio,…”
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Structure-activity analysis of thanatin, a 21-residue inducible insect defense peptide with sequence homology to frog skin antimicrobial peptides by Fehlbaum, Pascale, Bulet, Philippe, Chernysh, Serguey, Briand, Jean-Paul, Roussel, Jean-Pierre, Letellier, Lucienne, Hetru, Charles, Hoffmann, Jules A.

“…Immune challenge to the insect Podisus maculiventris induces synthesis of a 21-residue peptide with sequence homology to frog skin antimicrobial peptides of…”
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Cloning and analysis of a cecropin gene from the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae by Vizioli, J., Bulet, P., Charlet, M., Lowenberger, C., Blass, C., Müller, H.-M., Dimopoulos, G., Hoffmann, J., Kafatos, F.C., Richman, A.

“…Parasites of the genus Plasmodium are transmitted to mammalian hosts by anopheline mosquitoes. Within the insect vector, parasite growth and development are…”
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Solution structure of spheniscin, a beta-defensin from the penguin stomach by Landon, Céline, Thouzeau, Cécile, Labbé, Henri, Bulet, Philippe, Vovelle, Françoise

“…Recently two beta-defensins, named spheniscins, have been isolated from the stomach content of the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), which is capable of…”
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A novel inducible antibacterial peptide of Drosophila carries an O-glycosylated substitution by Bulet, P, Dimarcq, J.L, Hetru, C, Lagueux, M, Charlet, M, Hegy, G, Dorsselaer, A. van, Hoffmann, J.A

“…One of the facets of the host defense of higher insects is the rapid and transient synthesis, following bacterial challenge or trauma, of a battery of potent…”
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Novel inducible antibacterial peptides from a hemipteran insect, the sap-sucking bug Pyrrhocoris apterus by Cociancich, S, Dupont, A, Hegy, G, Lanot, R, Holder, F, Hetru, C, Hoffmann, J.A, Bulet, P

“…Insects belonging to the recent orders of the endopterygote clade (Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Coleoptera) respond to bacterial challenge by the…”
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Solution Structures of the Antifungal Heliomicin and a Selected Variant with both Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities by Lamberty, Mireille, Caille, Anita, Landon, Céline, Tassin-Moindrot, Séverine, Hetru, Charles, Bulet, Philippe, Vovelle, Françoise

“…In response to an experimental infection, the lepidopteran Heliothis virescens produces an antifungal protein named heliomicin. Heliomicin displays sequence…”
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Insect immunity: Isolation from a coleopteran insect of a novel inducible antibacterial peptide and of new members of the insect defensin family by BULET, P, COCIANCIH, S, DIMARCQ, J.-L, LAMBERT, J, REICHHART, J.-M, HOFFMANN, D, HETRU, C, HOFFMANN, J. A

“…Injection of heat-killed bacteria into larvae of the large tenebrionid beetle Zophobas atratus (Insecta, Endopterygota, Coleoptera) results in the appearance…”
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Strategies for the isolation and characterization of antimicrobial peptides of invertebrates by Hetru, C, Bulet, P

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Insect immunity; molecular cloning, expression, and characterization of cDNAs and genomic DNA encoding three isoforms of insect defensin in Aedes aegypti by Lowenberger, C.A, Smartt, C.T, Bulet, P, Ferdig, M.T, Severson, D.W, Hoffmann, J.A, Christensen, B.M

“…Aedes aegypti were immune activated by injection with bacteria, and the expression of insect defensins was measured over time. Northern analyses indicated that…”
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Identification of an aspartylglucosaminidase-like protein in the venom of the parasitic wasp Asobara tabida (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) by Moreau, S.J.M., Cherqui, A., Doury, G., Dubois, F., Fourdrain, Y., Sabatier, L., Bulet, P., Saarela, J., Prévost, G., Giordanengo, P.

“…This study was designed to identify one of the main components of venomous secretions of the endoparasitic wasp Asobara tabida. By using electrophoretic…”
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Insect peptides with improved protease-resistance protect mice against bacterial infection by OTVOS, LASZLO, BOKONYI, KRISZTINA, VARGA, ISTVAN, OTVOS, BALINT I., HOFFMANN, RALF, ERTL, HILDEGUND C.J., WADE, JOHN D., McMANUS, AILSA M., CRAIK, DAVID J., BULET, PHILIPPE

“…At a time of the emergence of drug-resistant bacterial strains, the development of antimicrobial compounds with novel mechanisms of action is of considerable…”
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