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Identification of the octapeptide lophyrotomin in the European birch sawfly (Arge pullata)
R Kannan1, P B Oelrichs, S M Thamsborg
1University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge, U.K.
Abstract:
Larvae of the European birch sawfly Arge pullata were shown to contain lophyrotomin, an octapeptide liver toxin containing four D-amino acids. Lophyrotomin was previously isolated from Lophyrotoma interrupta sawfly larvae in Australia.