Insects as sources of food and bioproducts: a review from Colombia

Pérez-Grisales, María Susana; Uribe Soto, Sandra I.

doi:10.1186/s41936-022-00319-1

The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology

Table 2 Insects as a source of compound with antimicrobial activity (antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral)

From: Insects as sources of food and bioproducts: a review from Colombia

Species	Substance tested or bioactive compound	Source	Results	References
Acrocinus longimanus	Alopeptides	Hemolymph	Antifungal activity	Barbault et al. (2003)
Apis mellifera	Abaecin peptide	Honey	Antibacterial activity	Luiz et al. (2017)
Apis mellifera	Honey sample	Honey	Antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and antiviral activity against herpes, influenza and varicella zoster virus	Ahmed et al. (2018), Watanabe et al. (2014)
Apis mellifera	Galangin and Pinocembrin (flavonoids)	Propolis	Antimicrobial activity against different pathogens	Velasquez and Montenegro (2017)
Apis mellifera	Ferulic and caffeic acid and derivatives of benzoic acid	Propolis	Antimicrobial activity against different pathogens	Velasquez and Montenegro (2017)
Apis mellifera	Propolis extracts	Propolis	Antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, including methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus	Klhar et al. (2019), Só et al. (2015)
Apis mellifera	Apitoxin	Bee venom	Antibacterial activity against Gram positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Leandro et al. (2015)
Apis mellifera	Melitin	Bee venom	Antimicrobial and antiviral activity	Oršolić (2012), Só et al. (2015)
Apis mellifera	Secapin	Bee venom	Antimicrobial activity against Gram positive and Gram-negative bacteria as well as fungus	Lee et al. (2016)
Apis mellifera	Royal jelly samples	Royal jelly	Antibacterial activity against Gram positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Fratini et al. (2016)
Apis mellifera	Royalisin	Royal jelly	Antimicrobial activity against fungus, as well as Gram positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Bílikova et al. (2015)
Apoica pallens	Protein c-type lectin 6	Venom	Antimicrobial activity	Mendonça et al. (2019)
Acromyrmex octospinosus	Secretions	Metapleural and mandibular glands, and integument	Antibacterial and antifungal activity	Samuels et al. (2013)
Acromyrmex subterraneus	Secretions	Metapleural and mandibular glands, and integument	Antibacterial and antifungal activity	Samuels et al. (2013)
Acromyrmex octospinosus	Candicidin	Streptomyces associated to the integument	Antifungal activity	Barke et al. (2010)
Atta sexdens	Secretions	Metapleural and mandibular glands, and integument	Antibacterial and antifungal compounds	Samuels et al. (2013)
Bombyx mori	Cecropins	Hemolymph	Antimicrobial activity against bacteria and fungus	Buhroo et al. (2018)
Bombyx mori	Gloverin A2	Hemolymph	Antimicrobial activity against bacteria and fungus	Buhroo et al. (2018)
Bombyx mori	Defensins	Hemolymph	Antimicrobial activity against bacteria and fungus	Buhroo et al. (2018)
Bombyx mori	Lebocin	Hemolymph	Antimicrobial activity against bacteria and fungus	Buhroo et al. (2018)
Bombyx mori	Lysozymes, attacins and moricin peptides	Hemolymph	Antimicrobial activity	Buhroo et al. (2018), Islam et al. (2016)
Chrysomya megacephala	Hemolymph samples	Larva and pupae	Antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Sahalan and Omar (2006)
Chrysomya megacephala	Proteins	Salivary glands	Antimicrobial activity	Tait et al. (2018)
Euschistus crenator	Tannins	–	Antiviral activity	Dossey et al. (2016)
Forficula auricularia	2-Methyl-1,4-benzoquinone and 2-ethyl-1,4-benzoquinone	Adult and larvae secretions	Antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Gasch and Vilcinskas (2014)
Hermetia illucens	Extracts	Larva	Antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Müller et al. (2017)
Hermetia illucens	Defensins	Hemolymph of immunized larvae	Antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive bacteria	Park et al. (2015)
Hermetia illucens	Cecropins, sarcotoxin and stomoxyn peptides	Hemolymph	Antimicrobial activity against bacteria and fungus	Elhag et al. (2017)
Lucilia sericata	Attacins, cecropins, diptericins and proline rich peptides	Hemolymph, Excretion/Secretion products	Antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria	Pöppel et al. (2015)
Lucilia sericata	Lucimycin	Hemolymph, Excretion/Secretion products	Antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria as well fungus	Pöppel et al. (2015)
Lucilia sericata	Lucifensin	Hemolymph, fat body, gut, salivary glands and Excretion/Secretion products from maggots	Antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria	Pöppel et al. (2015), Valachova et al. (2014)
Lucilia sericata	Sarcotoxin and stomoxyn peptides	Larva	Antimicrobial activity	Hirsch et al. (2019)
Lucilia sericata	Crude protein extracts	Larva	Antibacterial activity against S. aureus	Zhang et al. (2013)
Lucilia sericata	Extracts	Larva (whole-body)	Antibacterial activity against Micrococcus luteus	Valachova et al. (2014)
Melipona fasciculata	Propolis extracts	Propolis	Antimicrobial activity against S. mutans and C. albicans	Liberio et al. (2011)
Melipona quadrifasciata	Hydro-alcoholic propolis extract	Propolis	Antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative	Biluca et al. (2017)
Musca domestica	Cecropins	Larva	Antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, including multidrug resistant E. coli	Tang et al. (2014)
Musca domestica	Attacins, defensins, diptericins peptides	Larva	Antimicrobial activity	Tang et al. (2014)
Musca domestica	Lysozymes	Larva	Antimicrobial activity	Tang et al. (2014)
Musca domestica	Domesticin and muscin peptides	Larva	Antibacterial activity against Serratia marcescens and Micrococcus luteus	Tang et al. (2014)
Musca domestica	Novel antimicrobial protein	Larva	Antifungal activity against C. albicans	Guo et al. (2017)
Musca domestica	Haemolymph samples	Larva	Antibacterial activity against S. aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and P. aeruginosa	Kawasaki and Andoh (2017)
Musca domestica	Defensin	Immunized pupae	This defensin was active against Gram-positive bacteria and had a lower activity against Gram-negative bacteria	Dang et al. (2010)
Musca domestica	Protein enriched fraction	Larva	Antiviral activity against Bombyx mori nuclear polyhydrosis and Autographa califórnica Multicapsid Nucleopolyhedrovirus virus	Ai et al. (2013)
Musca domestica	Chitosan	Chitin from larvae	Antifungal and antiviral activity	Ai et al. (2012)
Periplaneta americana	Extracts	Whole body	Antimicrobial activity	Ali et al. (2017)
Periplaneta americana	Isoflavone compounds	Methanolic extracts	Antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis	Gao et al. (2016)
Periplaneta americana	Extracts	Brain, hemolymph and muscles	Antibacterial activity against the methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and neuropathogenic Escherichia coli	Ali et al. (2017)
Periplaneta americana	3-Acetylbenzamide	Produced by actinomycete strain isolated from the intestinal tract	Antifungal activity	Fang et al. (2018)
Periplaneta americana	Periplanetasin-2 peptide	Immunized cockroach	Antifungal activity	Yun et al. (2017)
Protopolybia exigua	Mastoparan peptides	Venom	Antimicrobial activity	Murata et al. (2009)
Sarconesiopsis magellanica	Excretion/secretion products	Larva	Antimicrobial activity	Díaz-Roa et al. (2019)
Sarconesiopsis magellanica	Extracts	Hemolymph	Antibacterial activity	Góngora et al. (2015)
Sarconesiopsis magellanica	Extracts	Fat body	Antibacterial activity	Góngora et al. (2015)
Spodoptera frugiperda	Peptides and proteins: cecropins, defensins and lysozymes	Hemolymph	Antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Chapelle et al. (2009)
Stingless bee	Honey samples	Honey	Antimicrobial activity	Silva et al. (2013)
Synoeca surinama	Peptides	Venom	Antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria	Freire et al. (2020)
Tetragonisca angustula	Honey sample	Honey	Bactericidal effect	Gamboa and Figueroa (2009)
Ulomoides dermestoides	Hexanoic and acetonic extracts	Adults (whole body)	Antibacterial activity against gram positive and gram negative	Morales et al. (2020)
Zophobas morio	Extracts	Larva (whole-body)	Antimicrobial activity against gram positive and gram negative	Mohtar et al. (2014)

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