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Subcellular calcium measurements in mammalian cells using jellyfish photoprotein aequorin-based probes

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Two Functional Motifs Define the Interaction, Internalization and Toxicity of the Cell-Penetrating Antifungal Peptide PAF26 on Fungal Cells

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Structural and Functional Studies of a Phosphatidic Acid-Binding Antifungal Plant Defensin MtDef4: Identification of an RGFRRR Motif Governing Fungal Cell Entry

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Expression of the Cameleon calcium biosensor in fungi reveals distinct Ca2+ signatures associated with polarized growth, development, and pathogenesis

(2012) Hye-Seon Kim et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Evidence for tryptophan being a signal molecule that inhibits conidial anastomosis tube fusion during colony initiation in Neurospora crassa

(2012) Verena Fischer-Harman et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Concentration-dependent mechanisms of cell penetration and killing by the de novo designed antifungal hexapeptide PAF26

(2012) Alberto Muñoz et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Heterokaryon Incompatibility Is Suppressed Following Conidial Anastomosis Tube Fusion in a Fungal Plant Pathogen

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The mechanistic basis of self-fusion between conidial anastomosis tubes during fungal colony initiation

(2012) Nick D. Read et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Plant defensins: Common fold, multiple functions

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Modes of antifungal action and in planta functions of plant defensins and defensin-like peptides

(2012) Barbara De Coninck et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Structure-Activity Determinants in Antifungal Plant Defensins MsDef1 and MtDef4 with Different Modes of Action against Fusarium graminearum

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Can plant defensins be used to engineer durable commercially useful fungal resistance in crop plants?

(2011) Jagdeep Kaur et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

The Antifungal Activity of the Penicillium chrysogenum Protein PAF Disrupts Calcium Homeostasis in Neurospora crassa

(2010) Ulrike Binder et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Amphotericin B and Its New Derivatives – Mode of Action

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Self-signalling and self-fusion in filamentous fungi

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The mode of antifungal action of plant, insect and human defensins

(2008) A. M. Aerts et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Anastomosis Is Required for Virulence of the Fungal NecrotrophAlternaria brassicicola

(2008) Kelly D. Craven et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

The Antimicrobial Peptide Histatin-5 Causes a Spatially Restricted Disruption on the Candida albicans Surface, Allowing Rapid Entry of the Peptide into the Cytoplasm

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