Plant defensins

• Authors: R. Nawrot , A. Gozdzicka-Jozefiak
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Many plants possess antimicrobial peptides (AMP) constitutively expressed or induced after infection. These families of peptides include four cysteine-type peptides: hevein and knottin-type peptides, lipid transfer proteins, plant defensins and thionins. Plant AMP are basic, cystein-rich peptides with molecular masses of approximately 5 kDa. They are mainly identified in perypheral cell layer of plants. These peptides may have an important role to play in the protection of plants from microbial infection, and they might prove to be useful tools for the genetic engineering of fungal and other patogen resistance in transgenic plants. Plant defensins family show very limited sequence conservation.

Keywords

EN

PLANT DEFENSIN

Discipline

• BIOTECHNOLOGY: BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee of Biotechnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Biotechnologia
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 27-41

Contributors

author

R. Nawrot

author

A. Gozdzicka-Jozefiak

• Document Type: REVIEW
• Publication order reference: Robert Nawrot, Zaklad Wirusologii Molekularnej, Instytut Biologii Eksperymentalnej, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, ul. Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznan, Poland