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Fat body is the major site of peptide antibiotic synthesis in insects. The goal of this work was to search in Calliphora vicina maggot for humoral factors that induce synthesis of antimicrobial peptides by the fat body cells in trauma. The preliminary analysis has shown that the activation factor revealed in hemolymph is a thermostable hydrophilic compound with a molecular mass lower than 3 kDa. The integument epitheliocytes were also found to release the humoral factors directly stimulating synthesis of antimicrobial peptides by the fat body.
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Original Russian Text © A. Yu. Yakovlev, 2011, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2011, vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 461–468.
To the 100th Anniversary of A.S. Danilevsky
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Yakovlev, A.Y. Induction of antimicrobial peptide synthesis by the fat body cells of maggots of Calliphora vicina R.-D. (Diptera, Calliphoridae). J Evol Biochem Phys 47, 543–551 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093011060056
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