The swaposin-like domain of potato aspartic protease (StAsp-PSI) exerts antimicrobial activity on plant and human pathogens

Peptides

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 777-785

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

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial proteins; Plant specific domain; SAPLIPs

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ASPARTIC PROTEASE 1; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; SURFACTANT PROTEIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CELL; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ASPARTIC ACID PROTEASES; BACILLUS CEREUS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOBACCO;

NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 77951252510     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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