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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol. 2016 Nov 13;52(1):45–56. doi: 10.1080/10409238.2016.1243654

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Defensins are expressed as prepropeptides and exhibit several conserved features. (A) A cartoon represents a prepropeptide. The black arrow indicates the position where a protease cleaves and releases a mature defensin. (B) Amino acid sequences of mature α-defensins in which conserved features are highlighted: cysteine residues and regiospecific disulfide linkages are shown in red, a salt bridge between Arg and Glu residues is shown in blue, a Gly residue in a GXC motif is shown green. A color version of the figure is available online.