Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), critical components of the innate immune system, are widely
distributed throughout the animal and plant kingdoms. They can protect against a broad …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are constituents of the innate immune system in every kind of
living organism. They can act by disrupting the microbial membrane or without affecting …

Background Scab, caused by the biotrophic fungus Venturia inaequalis, is the most
economically important disease of apples worldwide. During infection, V. inaequalis …

Antifungal proteins of fungal origin (AFPs) are small, secreted, cationic, and cysteine-rich
proteins. Filamentous fungi encode a wide repertoire of AFPs belonging to different …

Competition is one of the fundamental driving forces of natural selection. Beauveria
bassiana is a soil and plant phylloplane/root fungus capable of parasitizing insect hosts. Soil …

Small, cysteine-rich and cationic proteins with antimicrobial activity are produced by diverse
organisms of all kingdoms and represent promising molecules for drug development. The …

Antifungal proteins (AFPs) from filamentous fungi offer the potential to control fungal
infections that threaten human health and food safety. AFPs exhibit broad antifungal spectra …

Filamentous fungi encode distinct antifungal proteins (AFPs) that offer great potential to
develop new antifungals. Fungi are considered immune to their own AFPs as occurs in …

Hypothesis Polyphosphate nanoparticles as phosphatase-degradable carriers for
Penicillium chrysogenum antifungal protein (PAF) can enhance the antifungal activity of the …

The filamentous fungus Penicillium chrysogenum Q176 secretes the antimicrobial proteins
(AMPs) PAF and PAFB, which share a compact disulfide-bond mediated, β-fold structure …