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Three antibacterial proteins were purified from the culture medium of NIH-Sape-4, an embryonic cell line of Sarcophaga peregrina (flesh fly). Sequencing studies showed that two of these proteins belong to the sarcotoxin I family, potent antibacterial proteins purified from the hemolymph of
We have reported a novel serine protease produced by Sarcophaga peregrina (Nakajima et al., J. Biol. Chem. 272 (1997) 23805-23810). This 26-kDa protease showed antibacterial activity against several bacteria. This activity was an intrinsic characteristic of the enzyme protein and not directly
Previously, we purified a serine protease with a molecular mass of 26 kDa that exhibits potent antibacterial activity from a pupal extract of Sarcophaga peregrina (flesh fly). We divided this protease into 12 peptides and examined their antibacterial activity. A peptide corresponding to residues 155
A previous paper described the complete amino acid sequences of sarcotoxins IA, IB and IC, which are a group of potent antibacterial proteins with almost identical primary structures produced by Sarcophaga peregrina (fleshfly) larvae [Okada & Natori (1985) J. Biol. Chem. 260, 7174-7177]. The present
Sapecin B, an antibacterial protein of Sarcophaga peregrina, was divided into four peptides. A hendecapeptide derived from its helix region was found to have comparable antibacterial activity with that of the complete protein. This peptide had a much wider spectrum of antimicrobial activity than
Sapecin is an antibacterial protein purified from the culture medium of NIH-Sape-4, an embryonic cell line of Sarcophaga peregrina [Matsuyama, K. & Natori, S. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 236, 17112-17116]. As this protein inhibited the growth of Gram-positive bacteria better than that of Gram-negative
Sapecin is a 40-residue peptide containing 6 half-cystine residues. The disulfide structure of sapecin was determined by sequencing cystine-containing peptides obtained by digesting sapecin with thermolysin. Results showed that sapecin has a vortical structure fixed by 3 disulfide bonds between
We purified a novel antibacterial substance from immunized adult Sarcophaga and determined its molecular structure to be N-beta-alanyl-5-S-glutathionyl-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (5-S-GAD). We synthesized 5-S-GAD enzymatically from N-beta-alanyl-3, 4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (beta-Ala-Dopa) and
A cDNA clone for sarcotoxin IIA, an antibacterial protein of Sarcophaga peregrina (flesh fly) larvae [Ando, K., Okada, M., & Natori, S. (1987) Biochemistry 26, 226-230], was isolated and characterized. Sarcotoxin IIA was found to consist of 270 amino acid residues. Northern blot analysis showed that
A glycine-rich antibacterial protein with a molecular mass of 7,000 termed sarcotoxin III, was purified to homogeneity from the hemolymph of third instar larvae of Sarcophaga peregrina. When the hemolymph was fractionated, this protein was recovered in the same fraction as sarcotoxin I, a group of
Three antibacterial proteins with almost identical primary structures termed sarcotoxin IIA, IIB, and IIC were purified to homogeneity from the hemolymph of third instar larvae of Sarcophaga peregrina. The molecular masses of these proteins were about 24,000. These proteins were found to have common
Sarcotoxin II is a group of antibacterial proteins of Sarcophaga peregrina (flesh fly) with related primary structures. We have cloned three genes in this family. These genes formed a tandem array with about 2-kb intervals, and one of them was present in the opposite strand. The putative amino acid
The effect of sarcotoxin IIA, an antibacterial protein of Sarcophaga peregrina (flesh fly), on Escherichia coli was investigated. Sarcotoxin IIA was found to have a bacterial effect on growing bacteria, but little on non-growing bacteria. At a concentration of 25 micrograms/ml, it induced
The nucleotide sequence of sapecin cDNA suggested that this antibacterial peptide of the flesh fly (Sarcophaga peregrina) is produced from preprosapecin by post-translational processing. We examined the production of sapecin and its prosegment by radioimmunoassay under two different physiological
Three antibacterial proteins were induced when the body wall of Sarcophaga peregrina (flesh-fly) larvae was injured with a hypodermic needle. These proteins were separated and one was purified to homogeneity. The molecular weight of the purified protein was 5000 and its amino acid composition was