Design of a helical-stabilized, cyclic, and nontoxic analogue of the peptide Cm-p5 with improved antifungal activity

FEM Vicente, M González-Garcia, E Diaz Pico… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… to fluconazole, its low cytotoxicity, together with a stabilized α-… Cm-p5 (SRSELIVHQRLF-NH
2 ) is a peptide derived from a … that are present in insulin and defensins. However, this is the …

[HTML][HTML] Focus: Antimicrobial Resistance: Antimicrobial Peptides Therapy: An Emerging Alternative for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria

IE Mba, EI Nweze - The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Furthermore, a brevinin-1 peptide derived from the skin … in the mice and protected the infected
mice from bacterial … Interestingly, in addition to being non-cytotoxic, the peptide activity was …

[HTML][HTML] Nutritional Composition, Health Benefits, and Application Value of Edible Insects: A Review

Y Zhou, D Wang, S Zhou, H Duan, J Guo, W Yan - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
… Some active peptides from insects also show cytotoxicity … [166], antimicrobial peptides based
on insect defensin [167], … For example, hydrolyzed peptides obtained by heat treatment from …

Roles and Biomedical Applications of Haemolymph Lectin

R Kamei, OS Devi, SJ Singh… - Current Pharmaceutical …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
… This cytotoxic effect of MytiLec is specifically blocked by the co-… (SC-28 strain), obtained from
the blood of infected mice. While R. … big defensin [60]. Studies on serum lectin from a grub of …

[HTML][HTML] The draft genome sequence of the Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus septentrionalis towards an understanding of horn formation

S Morita, TF Shibata, T Nishiyama, Y Kobayashi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus is a giant beetle with distinctive
exaggerated horns present on the head and prothoracic regions of the male. T. dichotomus has …

The draft genome sequence of Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus

S Morita, TF Shibata, T Nishiyama, Y Kobayashi… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Beetles are the largest insect order and one of the most successful animal groups in terms
of number of species. The Japanese rhinoceros beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera, …

Tenebrio molitor as a source of interesting natural compounds, their recovery processes, biological effects, and safety aspects

S Errico, A Spagnoletta, A Verardi… - … Reviews in Food …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… They investigated the possible cytotoxicity of the powder used as food by assessing the …
Aqueous lipid extraction produced the lowest total extracted lipid value for all insect types (…