Table 1.

Amino acid sequence in single letter format, of the β-defensin peptides encoded by the genes deleted in the DefbΔ9/DefbΔ9 mice. The cysteine residues are emboldened in the mature peptide and sequences are lined up for best fit with dashes indicating where spaces have been introduced to facilitate this. The first exon of these two exon genes is in bold while the second exon is not. Signal sequence cleaved predicted by ExPASy proteomics tool