Title:

Plant defensins

Subtitle:

Plant defensins

Creator:

Nawrot, Robert ; Goździcka-Józefiak, Anna

Publisher:

Committee on Biotechnology PAS ; Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS

Date issued/created:

2007

Subject and Keywords:

biotechnology

Abstract:

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.

Relation:

Biotechnologia, vol.77, 2 (2007)-.

Volume:

77

Issue:

2

Start page:

27

End page:

41

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0860-7796

Source:

Library of Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Temporal coverage:

1988-2010

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-SA 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 4.0 license, full text available at:

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science

Original in:

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science

Projects co-financed by:

Operational Program Digital Poland, 2014-2020, Measure 2.3: Digital accessibility and usefulness of public sector information; funds from the European Regional Development Fund and national co-financing from the state budget.

Access:

Open