Table 3.

A few important antimicrobial peptides from fish skin mucus with their structure and specificity

Peptide	Species	Structure	Specificity	References
Pardaxin	Moses sole	Cationic, amphipathic, á-helix	Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Shai (1994)
Hipposin	Atlantic halibut	Histone H2A N-terminal fragment	Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Park et al. (1996)
Parasin I	Amur catfish	Histone H2A N-terminal fragment	Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, fungi	Park et al. (1996)
Pluerocidin	Winter flounder	Cationic, amphipathic, á-helix	Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Douglas et al. (2001)
Piscidins	Gadus morhua	Cationic, amphipathic, á-helix	Bacteria	Fernandes et al. (2010); Ruangsri et al. (2012)
Epinecidins	Epinephelus coioides	Cationic, amphipathic, á-helix	Bacteria, virus	Yin et al. (2006); Peng et al. (2010)
Gaduscidins	Atlantic cod	Cationic, amphipathic, á-helix	Bacteria, virus	Browne et al. (2011)
Cathelicidins	Atlantic salmon	Cationic, amphipathic, á-helix	Bacteria	Chang et al. (2006); Bridle et al. (2011)
Grammistins	Grammistes sexllineatus	Cationic, amphipathic, á-helix	Bacteria	Shiomi et al. (2000); Sugiyama et al. (2005)
Oncorhyncin III	Rainbow trout	Cleavage product of the non-histone chromosomal protein H6	Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Douglas et al. (2001)
Moronecidins	Hybrid striped bass	Cationic, amphipathic, á-helix	Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, fungi, yeast	Lauth et al. (2002)
SAMP H1	Atlantic salmon	Proline-rich histone H1 N-terminal peptide fragment	Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Luders et al. (2005)