C-terminal domain of a hevein-like protein from Wasabia japonica has potent antimicrobial activity

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 296-303

  Kiba, Akinori ^a,b   Saitoh, Hiromasa ^a   Nishihara, Masahiro ^a   Omiya, Kaori ^a   Yamamura, Saburo ^a  

^a IWATE BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial protein; Hevein; Potato virus X vector; Wasabia japonica

Indexed keywords

ALTERNARIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BOTRYTIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MAGNAPORTHE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT LECTINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASABIA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUTREMA; EUTREMA WASABI; FUNGI; HEVEA; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; JAPONICA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; POTATO VIRUS X; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0037361851     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg035     Document Type: Article

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