Sarcotoxin

Sarcotoxins are a group of antibacterial proteins present in the flesh fly belonging to the genus Sarcophaga. The proteins are present in the haemolymph of the fresh fly. The first protein, called sarcotoxin 1A, was discovered in 1983 from Sarcophaga peregrina by Masayuki Okada and Shunji Natori at the University of Tokyo, Japan.