Antimicrobial peptides generally are cysteine-rich, cationic, and amphipathic. 

Because of their positive charge and amphipathic nature, they interact with acidic phospholipids in lipid bilayers, forming pores and disrupting the membranes of bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses.

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Pr, which to the human eye is blue, is converted by red light to a far-red light–absorbing form called Pfr, which is bluegreen.

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Follicle-stimulating hormone, secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, stimulates the Sertoli cells; stimulates, the process of spermiogenesis

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SH2 domain (Src homology 2 domain) 

homology with a region in the Src cytosolic tyrosine kinase encoded by the src gene.

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STN7 The kinase is activated when plastoquinone, one of the electron carriers between PSI and PSII, accumulates in the reduced state.

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Finally, the single-stranded stretch including the damaged bases can then be replaced by new synthesis, and the final remaining nick is ligated by a complex of ligase III and XRCC1.