Peptides, new tools for plant protection in eco-agriculture

YM Zhang, DX Ye, Y Liu, XY Zhang, YL Zhou… - Advanced …, 2023 - Elsevier
As important physiological regulators, peptides have been used in many fields including
medicine, cosmetics, healthcare products, animal nutrition and health, and plant nutrition …

Toxin structures as evolutionary tools: Using conserved 3D folds to study the evolution of rapidly evolving peptides

EAB Undheim, M Mobli, GF King - BioEssays, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Three‐dimensional (3D) structures have been used to explore the evolution of proteins for
decades, yet they have rarely been utilized to study the molecular evolution of peptides …

Structural venomics reveals evolution of a complex venom by duplication and diversification of an ancient peptide-encoding gene

SS Pineda, YKY Chin, EAB Undheim… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Spiders are one of the most successful venomous animals, with more than 48,000 described
species. Most spider venoms are dominated by cysteine-rich peptides with a diverse range …

[图书][B] Seaweeds as plant fertilizer, agricultural biostimulants and animal fodder

L Pereira, K Bahcevandziev, NH Joshi - 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
To keep the soil productive, it is necessary to add nutrients. The types and amounts of
nutrients that plants need have been determined and can be supplied by applying to the soil …

Peptide NCTX15 derived from spider toxin gland effectively relieves hyperuricemia in mice

Y Liu, N Liu, W Bian, Y Zhang, Y Wu, Y Peng… - Biochemical and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hyperuricemia is a clinical disease characterized by a continuous increase in uric acid (UA)
due to purine metabolism disorder. As current drug treatments are limited, it is imperative to …

Gene design, fusion technology and TEV cleavage conditions influence the purification of oxidized disulphide-rich venom peptides in Escherichia coli

AF Sequeira, J Turchetto, NJ Saez, F Peysson… - Microbial cell …, 2017 - Springer
Background Animal venoms are large, complex libraries of bioactive, disulphide-rich
peptides. These peptides, and their novel biological activities, are of increasing …

The Whitefly Bemisia tabaci Knottin-1 Gene Is Implicated in Regulating the Quantity of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Ingested and Transmitted by the Insect

A Hariton Shalev, I Sobol, M Ghanim, SS Liu… - Viruses, 2016 - mdpi.com
The whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a major pest to agricultural crops. It transmits begomoviruses,
such as Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV), in a circular, persistent fashion …

Molecular basis of the remarkable species selectivity of an insecticidal sodium channel toxin from the African spider Augacephalus ezendami

V Herzig, M Ikonomopoulou, JJ Smith… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The inexorable decline in the armament of registered chemical insecticides has stimulated
research into environmentally-friendly alternatives. Insecticidal spider-venom peptides are …

A Strategy for Production of Correctly Folded Disulfide-Rich Peptides in the Periplasm of E. coli

NJ Saez, B Cristofori-Armstrong, R Anangi… - … Gene Expression in E …, 2017 - Springer
Recombinant expression of disulfide-reticulated peptides and proteins is often challenging.
We describe a method that exploits the periplasmic disulfide-bond forming machinery of …

杀虫活性多肽研究进展

叶德兴, 周源琳, 张怡萌, 陈黛妮, 杨新玲 - 农药学学报, 2022 - nyxxb.cn
传统杀虫剂在防治害虫, 保障农作物丰收等方面做出了卓越贡献, 但是由于其化学性质以及不
合理使用, 对环境也带来了一些负面影响. 因此, 以环境友好为前提, 寻找结构独特 …