Discovery and Characterization of a New Crustin Antimicrobial Peptide from <i>Amphibalanus amphitrite</i>

• Main Authors: Wei Zhang (Author), Xiaohang Xu (Author), Jun Zhang (Author), Ting Ye (Author), Qiao Zhou (Author), Ying Xu (Author), Wenyi Li (Author), Zhangli Hu (Author), Chenjing Shang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Crustins are an antimicrobial peptide (AMP) family that plays an important role in innate immunity in crustaceans. It is important to discover new AMPs from natural sources to expand the current database. Here, we identified and characterized a new crustin family member, named <i>Aa</i>C...