Insects are amazingly resistant to bacterial infections. To combat pathogens, insects rely on
cellular and humoral mechanisms, innate immunity being dominant in the latter category …

Insects respond to bacterial challenge by the rapid and transient synthesis of a large number
of potent antibacterial peptides that are active against many different bacteria. Two families …

Antimicrobial peptides appear to be ubiquitous and multipotent components of the innate
immune defense arsenal used by both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. During the …

In response to bacterial challenge or trauma, insects produce a battery of bactericidal or
bacteriostatic molecules with a broad spectrum of activity against Gram-positive and~ or …

Lepidoptera have been reported to produce several antibacterial peptides in response to
septic injury. However, in marked contrast to other insect groups, no inducible antifungal …

Insects belonging to the recent orders of the endopterygote clade (Lepidoptera, Diptera,
Hymenoptera and Coleoptera) respond to bacterial challenge by the rapid and transient …

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

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are peptide-based effector molecules produced by the innate
immune system to combat microbes. Insects produce the broadest repertoire of AMPs, and …

Antimicrobial host defense peptides are produced by all complex organisms as well as
some microbes and have diverse and complex antimicrobial activities. Collectively these …

An expensive group of cationic antimicrobial peptides has been isolated from animals and
plants during the past two decades. Three novel classes of natural antibiotics (anionic …