Antimicrobial peptides from plants

Pharmaceuticals

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 711-757

  Tam, James P ^a   Wang, Shujing ^a,b   Wong, Ka H ^a   Tan, Wei Liang ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Cysteine rich peptides; Cystine knot; Defensin; Hevein; Knottin; Plant antimicrobial peptides; Thionin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HAIRPININ; ALPHA THIONIN; BETA PUROTHIONIN; CIRCULIN A; CRAMBIN; CYCLOPSYCHOTRIDE; CYSTEINE RICH PEPTIDE; DEFENSIN; GAMMA THIONIN; HEVEIN; KALATA B1; KNOTTIN; LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SHEPHERIN I; SHEPHERIN II; SNAKIN 1; SNAKIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; BIOENGINEERING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT PRODUCT; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84947433298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14248247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ph8040711     Document Type: Review

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