Northeast Red Beans Produce a Thermostable and pH-Stable Defensin-Like Peptide with Potent Antifungal Activity

Lactoferricin but not lactoferrin inhibit herpes simplex virus type 2 infection in mice

(2012) Andrey Shestakov et al.   ANTIVIRAL RESEARCH

Purification, crystallization and X-ray characterization of a Kunitz-type trypsin inhibitor protein from the seeds of chickpea (Cicer arietinum)

(2011) Urvashi Sharma et al.   Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications

Purification, Characterization, and Molecular Cloning of a Novel Antifungal Lectin From the Roots of Ophioglossum pedunculosum

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Analysis of common bean expressed sequence tags identifies sulfur metabolic pathways active in seed and sulfur-rich proteins highly expressed in the absence of phaseolin and major lectins

(2011) Fuqiang Yin et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Peptide promiscuity: An evolutionary concept for plant defense

(2011) Octavio Luiz Franco   FEBS LETTERS

Structure–activity relationships of a snake cathelicidin-related peptide, BF-15

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Rat recombinant β-defensin 22 is a heparin-binding protein with antimicrobial activity

(2010) Hua Diao et al.   ASIAN JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY

Kinetic Characterization of a Basic Peroxidase from Garlic (Allium sativum L.) Cloves

(2010) Saida Medjeldi Marzouki et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE

An antifungal defensin from Phaseolus vulgaris cv. ‘Cloud Bean’

(2010) Xiangli Wu et al.   PHYTOMEDICINE

PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CURCIN, A TOXIC LECTIN FROM THE SEED OFJATROPHA CURCAS

(2010) Juan Lin et al.   PREPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Antifungal and Antiproliferative Activities of Lectin from the Rhizomes of Curcuma amarissima Roscoe

(2009) Norhameemee Kheeree et al.   APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

A defensin with highly potent antipathogenic activities from the seeds of purple pole bean

(2009) Peng Lin et al.   BIOSCIENCE REPORTS

Characterization of an Antifungal and Cryoprotective Class I Chitinase from Table Grape Berries (Vitis viniferaCv. Cardinal)

(2009) Carlos Fernandez-Caballero et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Plant defensins—Prospects for the biological functions and biotechnological properties

(2009) André de Oliveira Carvalho et al.   PEPTIDES

Isolation and characterization of a French bean hemagglutinin with antitumor, antifungal, and anti-HIV-1 reverse transcriptase activities and an exceptionally high yield

(2009) S.K. Lam et al.   PHYTOMEDICINE

Purification and characterization of a novel ribosome-inactivating protein from seeds of Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim

(2009) Shao-hua Shu et al.   PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION

Vv-AMP1, a ripening induced peptide from Vitis vinifera shows strong antifungal activity

(2008) Abré de Beer et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Basic RNases of wild almond (Prunus webbii): Cloning and characterization of six new S-RNase and one “non-S RNase” genes

(2008) Bojana Banović et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Novel insights on the mechanism of action of α-amylase inhibitors from the plant defensin family

(2008) Patrícia B. Pelegrini et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

Concurrent purification of two defense proteins from French bean seeds: a defensin-like antifungal peptide and a hemagglutinin

(2007) Edwin H. W. Leung et al.   JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE SCIENCE