The venom of the honeybee (Apis mellifera): free amino acids and peptides
- 1 October 1968
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 46 (10) , 1221-1226
- https://doi.org/10.1139/o68-182
Abstract
The venom of the honeybee (Apis mellifera), obtained by electrical excitation, was fractionated by solvent extraction and gel filtration. The free amino acid and peptide content was determined by automated analysis. Less than 1% of the venom consisted of 19 free amino acids, while the minimum quantity of the 14 peptides was 15%. Two histapeptides were isolated and characterized. The sequence of histapeptide A was alanyl-glycyl-prolyl-alanyl-glutaminyl-histamine.Keywords
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