Antimicrobial peptides are a vital component of the innate immune system of all eukaryotic
organisms and many of these peptides have potent antifungal activity. They have potential …

Thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs) are the products of a large, highly complex gene family
involved in host defence and a wide range of developmental processes in fungi, plants, and …

RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) have roles in the regulation of many post-transcriptional steps
in gene expression, but relatively few RBPs have been systematically studied. We searched …

Osmotin is a stress responsive antifungal protein belonging to the pathogenesis-related
(PR)-5 family that confers tolerance to both biotic and abiotic stresses in plants. Protective …

The antifungal activity of the PR-5 family of plant defense proteins has been suspected to
involve specific plasma membrane component (s) of the fungal target. Osmotin is a tobacco …

A large range of ingredients for food and food products are subject to fungal contamination,
which is a major cause of destruction of crops, exposure of animals and humans to invasive …

Osmotin is a tobacco PR-5 protein that has antifungal activity and is implicated in host-plant
defense. We show here that osmotin induces apoptosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae …

Plants are major targets of microbes seeking a source of nutrition. A complex array of
interactions between plants and microbes has evolved that reflects both the nutrient …

Background Plant inducible immunity includes the accumulation of a set of defense proteins
during infection called pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins, which are grouped into families …

Spatial control of gene expression, at the level of both transcription and translation, is critical
for cellular differentiation [1–4]. In budding yeast, the conserved Ndr/warts kinase Cbk1 …