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Bacterial challenge induced the appearance of a strong antibacterial activity in the cell-free hemolymph of adult Palomena prasina (Hemiptera). We isolated several peptides that were capable of causing this activity and determined their primary sequence by Edman degradation and mass spectrometry. Four of the five isolated peptides are closely related small, strongly cationic, proline-rich peptides...