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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ureases: Historical aspects, catalytic, and non-catalytic properties–A review

K Kappaun, AR Piovesan, CR Carlini… - Journal of advanced …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Urease (urea amidohydrolase, EC 3.5. 1.5) is a nickel-containing enzyme produced
by plants, fungi, and bacteria that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into ammonia and …

Nonredox nickel enzymes

MJ Maroney, S Ciurli - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
The importance of nickel enzymes, where nickel serves as an essential cofactor, in Archaea,
bacteria, plants, and primitive eukaryotes, is well documented. 1 Despite the fact that no …

Crystal structure of the first plant urease from jack bean: 83 years of journey from its first crystal to molecular structure

A Balasubramanian, K Ponnuraj - Journal of molecular biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Urease, a nickel-dependent metalloenzyme, is synthesized by plants, some bacteria, and
fungi. It catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into ammonia and carbon dioxide. Although the …

Toxic proteins in plants

L Dang, EJM Van Damme - Phytochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Plants have evolved to synthesize a variety of noxious compounds to cope with unfavorable
circumstances, among which a large group of toxic proteins that play a critical role in plant …

Ureases as multifunctional toxic proteins: A review

CR Carlini, R Ligabue-Braun - Toxicon, 2016 - Elsevier
Ureases are metalloenzymes that hydrolyze urea into ammonia and carbon dioxide. They
were the first enzymes to be crystallized and, with them, the notion that enzymes are proteins …

Nanoparticles in association with antimicrobial peptides (NanoAMPs) as a promising combination for agriculture development

MR Maximiano, TB Rios, ML Campos… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Antimicrobial peptides are small molecules, up to 10 kDa, present in all kingdoms of life,
including in plants. Several studies report that these molecules have a broad spectrum of …

Endocytosis-mediated entry of a caterpillar effector into plants is countered by Jasmonate

ZW Yan, FY Chen, X Zhang, WJ Cai, CY Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Insects and pathogens release effectors into plant cells to weaken the host defense or
immune response. While the imports of some bacterial and fungal effectors into plants have …

Could the Urease of the Gut Bacterium Proteus mirabilis Play a Role in the Altered Gut–Brain Talk Associated with Parkinson's Disease?

MVC Grahl, BS Andrade, APA Perin, GA Neves… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Intestinal dysbiosis seems to play a role in neurodegenerative pathologies. Parkinson's
disease (PD) patients have an altered gut microbiota. Moreover, mice treated orally with the …

Structural disorder in plant proteins: where plasticity meets sessility

AA Covarrubias, CL Cuevas-Velazquez… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2017 - Springer
Plants are sessile organisms. This intriguing nature provokes the question of how they
survive despite the continual perturbations caused by their constantly changing …