Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are the most frequent cause of sepsis,
which urgently demanding new drugs for treating infection. Two homologous insect CSαβ …

Insect defensins are promising candidates for the development of potent antimicrobials
against antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). An insect defensin, DLP4 …

An antibacterial peptide was isolated from a black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens. The
molecular mass of this peptide was established as 4247.37 by matrix‐assisted laser …

Synthetic antimicrobial 9-mer peptides were designed from the amino acid sequence of an
active site of insect defensin to increase the number of positively charged amino acid …

Owing to the challenges faced by conventional therapeutics, novel peptide antibiotics
against multidrug-resistant (MDR) gram-negative bacteria need to be urgently developed …

In this study, we induced and purified a novel antimicrobial peptide exhibiting activity against
Gram-positive bacteria from the immunized hemolymph of Hermetia illucens larvae. The …

There is an urgent need to discover new active drugs to combat methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus, which is a serious threat to humans and animals and incompletely …

Antimicrobial peptides are components of both vertebrate and invertebrate innate immune
systems that are expressed in response to exposure to bacterial antigens. Naturally …

Defensin from a beetle, Allomyrina dichotoma, is known to have anti-bacterial activity
against Gram-positive bacteria. This peptide, which comprises 43 amino acid residues, was …

A 430-bp cDNA encoding the insect antimicrobial peptide defensin was cloned from the
housefly, and designated Musca domestica defensin (Mdde). The open reading frame of the …