Production of an engineered killer peptide in Nicotiana benthamiana by using a Potato virus X expression system

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6360-6367

  Donini, Marcello ^a   Lico, Chiara ^a   Baschieri, Selene ^a   Conti, Stefania ^b   Magliani, Walter ^b   Polonelli, Luciano ^b   Benvenuto, Eugenio ^a  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBODIES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PATHOLOGY; TOXIC MATERIALS; YEAST;

BROAD SPECTRUM YEAST KILLER TOXIN; CHIMERIC VIRUS PARTICLES (CVP); HUMAN PATHOGENS; MOLECULAR FARMING; PEPTIDES;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

COAT PROTEIN; IDIOTYPIC ANTIBODY; KILLER PEPTIDE; MYCOTOXIN; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

BIOENGINEERING;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POTATO VIRUS X; POTYVIRUS; PRODUCT RECOVERY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOBACCO;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CAPSID PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PEPTIDES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POTEXVIRUS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TOBACCO; VIRION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; POTATO VIRUS X; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. TABACI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 26844580747     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.10.6360-6367.2005     Document Type: Article

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