Antimicrobial activity of potato aspartic proteases (StAPs) involves membrane permeabilization

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2039-2047

  Mendieta, Julieta R ^a   Pagano, Mariana R ^a   Muñoz, Fernando F ^a   Daleo, Gustavo R ^a   Guevara, María G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUSARIUM SOLANI; INCUBATION TIME; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FUSARIUM; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT PROTEINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

FUSARIUM SOLANI; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 33746067918     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28816-0     Document Type: Article

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