Plant storage proteins with antimicrobial activity: Novel insights into plant defense mechanisms

FASEB Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3290-3305

  De Souza Cândido, Elizabete ^a   Pinto, Michelle Flaviane Soares ^a   Pelegrini, Patrícia Barbosa ^b   Lima, Thais Bergamin ^a   Silva, Osmar Nascimento ^a,c   Pogue, Robert ^a   Grossi De Sá, Maria Fátima ^a,b   Franco, Octávio Luiz ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biotechnological potential; Drug development; Pathogen attack

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; GLYCINE; LECTIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OCATIN PROTEIN; PATATIN PROTEIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TARIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; VICILIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERMINATION; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; VEGETATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG DISCOVERY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HUMANS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 80053892540     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-184291     Document Type: Review

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