Drosomycin is an antifungal peptide from Drosophila melanogaster and was the first antifungal peptide isolated from insects. Drosomycin is induced by...

Drosomycin, an example of a peptide...

of innate immunity,". [More specifically, the work showing increased Drosomycin expression following activation of Toll pathway in microbial infection...

induction of transcription of genes for antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) such as drosomycin. Drosophila have a total of 9 toll family and 6 spz family genes that...

insects and arthropods (e.g. cecropin, attacin, melittin, mastoparan, drosomycin, thioester-containing protein 1) amphibia, frogs (magainin, dermaseptin...

into an antimicrobial environment. Hans G. Boman Antimicrobial peptides Drosomycin Metchnikowin Baramicin Daisho The Toll immunity signalling pathway Clemmons...

effector peptide response, which includes the gene families Bomanin, Drosomycin, Metchnikowin, and Baramicin. Cohen LB, Lindsay SA, Xu Y, Lin SJ, Wasserman...

in vivo function. Mutants for the defensin-like antimicrobial peptide Drosomycin were more susceptible to fungi, validating a role for defensin-like peptides...