Antimicrobial peptides isolated from fish

摘要

Antimicrobial peptides (endobiotic peptides), isolated from fish are described. Such endobiotic peptides may be isolated as 22 amino acid peptides having molecular weights of about 2500 Da from the gills of hybrid striped bass (Morone saxitilisxMorone chrysops). Antibodies that bind such peptides and methods of using such peptides are also described.