Multidrug-resistant bacteria are a severe threat to public health. Conventional antibiotics are
becoming increasingly ineffective as a result of resistance, and it is imperative to find new …

Since the beginning of the 90s lots of cationic plant, cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides
(AMP) have been studied. However, only coined the term “plant defensin,” after comparison …

Thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs) are a highly complex protein family associated with host
defense and developmental processes in plants, animals, and fungi. They are highly diverse …

Even before the perception or interaction with pathogens, plants rely on constitutively
guardian molecules, often specific to tissue or stage, with further expression after contact …

Background Food spoilage is caused by the undesirable growth of spoilage microorganisms
in food products. This spoilage can lead to the global loss and waste of food. It is estimated …

Plant defensins are cationic peptides that are ubiquitous within the plant kingdom and
belong to a large superfamily of antimicrobial peptides found in several organisms …

Solid-state NMR spectroscopic techniques provide valuable information about the structure,
dynamics and topology of membrane-inserted polypeptides. In particular antimicrobial …

Abstract Aurein 2.6-COOH and aurein 3.1-COOH were studied along with their naturally
occurring C-terminally amidated analogues. Circular dichroism (CD) and molecular dynamic …

In the Medicago truncatula genome about 700 genes code for nodule-specific cysteine-rich
(NCR) small peptides that are expressed in the symbiotic organ, the root nodule, where they …

For millennia, humanity has relied on plants for its medicines, and modern pharmacology
continues to reexamine and mine plant metabolites for novel compounds and to guide …