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

Dimerization of Plant Defensin NaD1 Enhances Its Antifungal Activity

(2012) Fung T. Lay et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

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

(2012) Alberto Muñoz et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The plant defensin RsAFP2 induces cell wall stress, septin mislocalization and accumulation of ceramides in Candida albicans

(2012) Karin Thevissen et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Subcellular targeting of an evolutionarily conserved plant defensin MtDef4.2 determines the outcome of plant-pathogen interaction in transgenic Arabidopsis

(2012) Jagdeep Kaur et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Structural Basis for Interactions of the Phytophthora sojae RxLR Effector Avh5 with Phosphatidylinositol 3-Phosphate and for Host Cell Entry

(2012) Furong Sun et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Entry of oomycete and fungal effectors into plant and animal host cells

(2011) Shiv D. Kale et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Phosphatidic Acid Binds and StimulatesArabidopsisSphingosine Kinases

(2011) Liang Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

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

(2011) Uma Shankar Sagaram et al.   PLoS One

Showdown at the RXLR motif: Serious differences of opinion in how effector proteins from filamentous eukaryotic pathogens enter plant cells

(2011) J. G. Ellis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phosphatidylinositol monophosphate-binding interface in the oomycete RXLR effector AVR3a is required for its stability in host cells to modulate plant immunity

(2011) T. Yaeno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) Jagdeep Kaur et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Cell biology meets biophysics to unveil the different mechanisms of penetratin internalization in cells

(2010) Isabel D. Alves et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

External Lipid PI3P Mediates Entry of Eukaryotic Pathogen Effectors into Plant and Animal Host Cells

(2010) Shiv D. Kale et al.   CELL

Permeabilization of Fungal Hyphae by the Plant Defensin NaD1 Occurs through a Cell Wall-dependent Process

(2010) Nicole L. van der Weerden et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides

(2009) Nathan Schmidt et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Plant defensins—Prospects for the biological functions and biotechnological properties

(2009) André de Oliveira Carvalho et al.   PEPTIDES

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

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

Entering and breaking: virulence effector proteins of oomycete plant pathogens

(2008) Brett M. Tyler   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The Plant Defensin, NaD1, Enters the Cytoplasm ofFusarium OxysporumHyphae

(2008) Nicole L. van der Weerden et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Membrane recognition by phospholipid-binding domains

(2008) Mark A. Lemmon   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY