The use of medicinal plants has been done since ancient times and may even be
considered the origin of modern medicine. Compounds of plant origin have been and still …

Plant antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have evolved differently from AMPs from other life
forms. They are generally rich in cysteine residues which form multiple disulfides. In turn, the …

Inducible defense-related proteins have been described in many plant species upon
infection with oomycetes, fungi, bacteria, or viruses, or insect attack. Several types of …

In incompatible host-pathogen interactions, damage caused by the pathogen remains
restricted as a result of the plant's defensive response. Most effective is the hypersensitive …

Hundreds of peptide antibiotics have been described in the past half-century (20, 28, 35).
These fall into two classes, nonribosomally synthesized peptides, such as the gramicidins …

In the last few years, feed additives have been used in animal nutrition to improve nutrient
utilization, health parameters and animal performance. However, the use of antibiotics as …

Antimicrobial peptides appear to be ubiquitous and multipotent components of the innate
immune defense arsenal used by both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. During the …

The growing public health problem of infections caused by multiresistant Gram-positive
bacteria, in particularStaphylococcus aureus, prompted us to screen human epithelia for …

Disease resistance is associated with a plant defense response that involves an integrated
set of signal transduction pathways. Changes in the expression patterns of 2,375 selected …

Plant defensins are an extensive family of small cysteine rich proteins characterised by a
conserved cysteine stabilised alpha beta protein fold which resembles the structure of insect …