Recent evidence indicates that antimicrobial peptides can kill microbes in more complex
ways than just by membrane permeabilization. In this study, the mechanism of …

Sustainable protection of plant crops against diseases relies on a rational use of pesticides
and to a reduction of the number of active ingredients to the more selective, less toxic and …

Plants produce antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) to defend themselves against pathogens. The
repertoire of AMPs synthesized by plants is extremely large, with hundreds of different AMPs …

The presence of lysine (Lys) or arginine (Arg) and tryptophan (Trp) are important for the
antimicrobial effects of cationic peptides. Therefore, we designed and synthesized a series …

PAF26 is a synthetic fungicidal hexapeptide with cell-penetration properties and non-lytic
mode of action. We demonstrate herein the endogenous accumulation of reactive oxygen …

An antifungal peptide, MMGP1, was recently identified from marine metagenome. The
mechanism of cellular internalization of this peptide in Candida albicans was studied using …

Antimicrobial peptides with antifungal activity have not received as much consideration as
their antibacterial counterparts, which is probably a consequence of the higher impact of …

The search for environmentally biocompatible and cost-effective methods to control
filamentous fungi in agriculture is becoming increasingly urgent. In vitro antimicrobial activity …

Antimicrobial peptides Page 204 CHAPTER 8 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES JOSE F. MARCOS1
and PALOMA MANZANARES2 1 Departamento de Ciencia de los Alimentos, Consejo …

Mochon and Liu, 2008; Jang et al., 2010; Mania et al., 2010; Srinivas et al., 2010). The
fluorescent AMPs commonly retain their antifungal activity although this may be reduced …