Structural basis of the antifungal activity of wheat PR4 proteins

FEBS Letters

Volumn 583, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 2865-2871

  Bertini, Laura ^a   Caporale, Carlo ^a   Testa, Marco ^a   Proietti, Silvia ^a   Caruso, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Fusarium culmorum; Homology modelling; Molecular docking; PR proteins; Ribonuclease activity; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; RIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WHEATWIN1;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WHEAT;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; FUSARIUM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEASES; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRITICUM;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 69249232224     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.07.045     Document Type: Article

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