Peptides fulfill a plethora of functions in plant growth, development, and stress responses.
They act as key components of cell-to-cell communication, interfere with signaling and …

Nowadays, cancer has become the second highest leading cause of death, and it is
expected to continue to affect the population in forthcoming years. Additionally, treatment …

Crop losses due to pathogens are a major threat to global food security. Plants employ a
multilayer defense against a pathogen including the use of physical barriers (cell wall) …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are essential for defence against pathogens in all living
organisms and possessed activities against bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites and even …

Peptide antibiotics are produced by bacterial, mammalian, insect or plant organisms in
defense against invasive microbial pathogens. Therefore, they are gaining importance as …

Introduction: A few scorpions are dangerous to humans. Their medical relevance was the
initial driving force for venom research. By classical biochemistry and molecular cloning …

Hevein-like antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) comprise a family of plant AMPs with antifungal
activity, which harbor a chitin-binding site involved in interactions with chitin of fungal cell …

Anionic antimicrobial peptides (AAMPs) with net charges ranging from-1 to-8 have been
identified in frogs, toads, newts and salamanders across Africa, South America and China …

Twelve promising candidates for antimicrobial peptides encrypted in F7J075, Q948X9,
Q94LX2, Q3V5S6, Q4LER6, A0A0R0HYM3 and I1LMQ8 with molecular masses ranging …

Maximin H5 is an anionic antimicrobial peptide from amphibians, which carries a C-terminal
amide moiety, and was found to be moderately haemolytic (20%). The α-helicity of the …