Tachyplesin Explained

thumb|Tachyplesin I and Tachyplesin II

Tachyplesin is an antimicrobial peptide isolated from the horseshoe crab with a molecular weight of 2.36 kDa and the amino acid sequence KWCFRVCYRGICYRRCR.^[1]

Further reading

• Murakami T, Niwa M, Tokunaga F, Miyata T, Iwanaga S . Direct virus inactivation of tachyplesin I and its isopeptides from horseshoe crab hemocytes . Chemotherapy . 37 . 5 . 327–34 . 1991 . 10.1159/000238875 . 1666545.

Notes and References

1. Nakamura T, Furunaka H, Miyata T, etal . Tachyplesin, a class of antimicrobial peptide from the hemocytes of the horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus). Isolation and chemical structure . The Journal of Biological Chemistry . 263 . 32 . 16709–13 . November 1988 . 10.1016/S0021-9258(18)37448-9 . 3141410 . free .