Peptide sequence of β-defensins deleted in DefbΔ9 deletion.

Single letter amino acid sequence of the predicted peptide encoded by the β-defensin genes in the DefbΔ9 deletion. The signal sequence is separated from the mature peptide sequence as determined by ExPASy proteomics tool http://web.expasy.org/peptide_cutter/. These are two exon encoded genes, and the first exon encoded amino acids are in bold, second exon encoded amino acids are non-bold. Mature peptide sequences are aligned using the classical 6 cysteine motif (present in all but Defb50) and spaces are introduced (marked by -) to enable this. Cysteines in the mature peptide are emboldened.