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Honey bee peptides Family members are bee venom peptides such as Secapin. Mature secapin is composed of 25 amino acid residues that contain a disulfide link. Secapin has been demonstrated to act as a potent neurotoxin. In Apis mellifera secapin exhibits anti-bacterial activity and induces inflammation and pain with anti-fibrinolytic, anti-elastolytic, and anti-microbial activities. Secapin shares a common folding pattern with apamin, mast cell degranulating peptide and tertiapin; it is centred on a beta-turn covalently linked to an alpha-helical segment by one disulphide link (two disulphide links in the other peptides). |
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