Transgenic expression of gallerimycin, a novel antifungal insect defensin from the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella, confers resistance to pathogenic fungi in tobacco

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 387, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 549-557

  Langen, Gregor ^a   Imani, Jafargholi ^a   Altincicek, Boran ^a   Kieseritzky, Gernot ^b   Kogel, Karl Heinz ^a   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Erysiphe cichoracearum; Fungal resistance; Galleria mellonella; Gallerimycin; Mas promoter; Sclerotinia minor; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEFENSIN; GALLERIMYCIN; MANNOPINE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WAX;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ERYSIPHE CICHORACEARUM; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIQUID; MOTH; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SCLEROTINIA MINOR; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFENSINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HEMOCYTES; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TOBACCO;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; FUNGI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GOLOVINOMYCES CICHORACEARUM; INSECTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SCLEROTINIA MINOR;

EID: 33746047082     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2006.071     Document Type: Article

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