Identification of the octapeptide lophyrotomin in the European birch sawfly (Arge pullata)

Abstract R. Kannan , P. B. Oelrichs , S. M. Thamsborg and D. H. Williams . Identification of the octapeptide lophyrotomin in the European birch sawfly ( Arge pullata ). Toxicon 26, 224 – 226, 1988. — 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.