Patent ID: 7745576

Claim:
An isolated polypeptide having antimicrobial activity, selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polypeptide with at least 80% sequence identity with amino acids 1 to 21 of SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) a polypeptide which is encoded by a polynucleotide which hybridizes under high stringency conditions with (i) nucleotides 496 to 558 of SEQ ID NO: 1,(ii) the cDNA sequence contained in nucleotides 1 to 558 of SEQ ID NO: 1, or (iii) a complementary strand of (i) or (ii); and (c) a polypeptide which is a fragment of the sequence of amino acids 1 to 21 of SEQ ID NO: 2, which has antimicrobial activity.