Plant Antimicrobial Peptides: State of the Art, In Silico Prediction and Perspectives in the Omics Era.

ABSTRACT: Even before the perception or interaction with pathogens, plants rely on constitutively guardian molecules, often specific to tissue or stage, with further expression after contact with the pathogen. These guardians include small molecules as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), generally cysteine-rich, functioning to prevent pathogen establishment. Some of these AMPs are shared among eukaryotes (eg, defensins and cyclotides), others are plant specific (eg, snakins), while some are specific to certain plant families (such as heveins). When compared with other organisms, plants tend to present a higher amount of AMP isoforms due to gene duplications or polyploidy, an occurrence possibly also associated with the sessile habit of plants, which prevents them from evading biotic and environmental str

SUBMITTER: Dos Santos-Silva CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7476358 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature