Figure 8.

(Left) effects of AMPs synthesis after bacterial infection; insect larvae when inoculated with bacteria show an efficient bacterial clearance by means of newly synthesized AMPs (blue line). If the infection was carried out in the presence of inhibitors of protein synthesis (red line), AMPs were absent, and the larva showed symptoms of septicemia disease. (Right) Electrophoretic analysis of hemolymph samples from not infected (C) and infected (In) G. mellonella larvae. Arrowheads indicate the presence of two low molecular mass bands in the hemolymph from immunized larvae, (from [99]).