Synergistic antifungal activity of two chitin-binding proteins from spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus L.)

Planta

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 221-232

  Van Den Bergh, Karolien P B ^b   Rougé, Pierre ^c   Proost, Paul ^d   Coosemans, Jozef ^b   Krouglova, Tanya ^b   Engelborghs, Yves ^b   Peumans, Willy J ^a,b   Van Damme, Els J M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^d REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Chitin binding protein; Euonymus; Hevein; Posttranslational processing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES; SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS;

CHITIN; CLONING; FORESTRY; FUNGI; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

PROTEINS;

CHITIN; CLONES; FUNGI; PROTEINS; SYNTHESIS; TREES;

EUONYMUS; EUONYMUS EUROPAEUS; EUONYMUS PATENS;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CHITIN; CHITINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; EUONYMUS; FUNGUS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHITIN; CHITINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; EUONYMUS; FUNGI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 4344595097     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-004-1238-1     Document Type: Article

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