Description
An antimicrobial cationic peptide; reduces germination percentage and mean tube elongation in kiwi fruit pollen (EC50s = 14 and 15.8 µM, respectively); decreases viral replication in Vero cells infected with HSV-1 or HSV-2 (EC50s = 36.59 and 33.2 µM, respectively) without affecting cell viability (CC50 = >100 µM); induces apoptosis in HL-60 cells at 10 and 50 µM and hemolysis in isolated human erythrocytes at 50 µM; induces DNA fragmentation in HL-60 cells in a reporter assay at 10 and 50 µM