Plant antimicrobial peptides: a comprehensive review of their classification, production, mode of action, functions, applications, and challenges

F Zou, C Tan, TS Shinali, B Zhang, L Zhang, Z Han… - Food & Function, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The emergence of pathogens resistant to conventional antibiotics and the growing interest in
developing alternative natural antimicrobial agents have prompted a search for plant …

Amino acid–derived defense metabolites from plants: A potential source to facilitate novel antimicrobial development

A Parthasarathy, EJ Borrego, MA Savka… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
For millennia, humanity has relied on plants for its medicines, and modern pharmacology
continues to reexamine and mine plant metabolites for novel compounds and to guide …

Plant-derived antimicrobial peptides: novel preservatives for the food industry

P Baindara, SM Mandal - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
Food spoilage is a widespread issue brought on by the undesired growth of microbes in
food products. Thousands of tons of usable food or food products are wasted every day due …

Ultrafast Biomimetic Oxidative Folding of Cysteine‐rich Peptides and Microproteins in Organic Solvents

A Kam, S Loo, Y Qiu, CF Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Disulfides in peptides and proteins are essential for maintaining a properly folded structure.
Their oxidative folding is invariably performed in an aqueous‐buffered solution. However …

PepSAVI-MS reveals anticancer and antifungal cycloviolacins in Viola odorata

NC Parsley, CL Kirkpatrick, CM Crittenden, JG Rad… - Phytochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Widespread resistance to antimicrobial and cancer therapeutics is evolving in every country
worldwide and has a direct impact on global health, agriculture and the economy. The …

Plant peptides–redefining an area of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides

JR Chekan, LS Mydy, MA Pasquale… - Natural Product …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering 1965 to February 2024Plants are prolific peptide chemists and are known to make
thousands of different peptidic molecules. These peptides vary dramatically in their size …

Anti-fungal Hevein-like peptides biosynthesized from quinoa cleavable hololectins

S Loo, SV Tay, A Kam, F Tang, JS Fan, D Yang… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Chitin-binding hevein-like peptides (CB-HLPs) belong to a family of cysteine-rich peptides
that play important roles in plant stress and defense mechanisms. CB-HLPs are ribosomally …

A structural perspective of plant antimicrobial peptides

ML Campos, LM Lião, ESF Alves, L Migliolo… - Biochemical …, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Among the numerous strategies plants have developed to fend off enemy attack,
antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) stand out as one of the most prominent defensive barriers that …

Plant-Derived Substances in the Fight Against Infections Caused by Candida Species

I Guevara-Lora, G Bras, J Karkowska-Kuleta… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Yeast-like fungi from the Candida genus are predominantly harmless commensals that
colonize human skin and mucosal surfaces, but under conditions of impaired host immune …

Hololectin interdomain linker determines asparaginyl endopeptidase-mediated maturation of antifungal hevein-like peptides in oats

S Loo, SV Tay, A Kam, W Lee, JP Tam - Frontiers in plant science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Heveins and hevein-containing (hev-) lectins play important roles in stress and pathogenic
responses in plants but cause health concerns in humans. Hev-hololectins contain multiple …