The rise in global antibiotic resistance highlights the urgent need for effective antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) offer a potential solution to combat bacterial resistance. However, key challenges remain in addressing the limitations of current peptide drugs and biomaterials, ...
Rice is a staple food crop worldwide, and its production is severely threatened by phloem-feeding insect herbivores, particularly the brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens), and destructive pathogens. Despite the identification of many BPH resistance genes, the molecular basis of rice resistanc...
Foodborne pathogenic bacterial infections pose significant challenges to global food safety and public health, while the issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has worsened in recent years, creating an urgent need for safe, natural alternatives to combat foodborne pathogens and associated intest...
In this experiment the transcriptional response of the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa towards physiological concentrations of the major human host defense peptide LL-37 was investigated using microarrays. To this aim, three independent cultures of P. aeruginosa PAO1 were grown u...
Mitochondria are known to be functional organelles, but their role as a signaling unit is increasingly being appreciated. The recent identification of a short open reading frame (sORF) in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) that encodes a signaling peptide, humanin, suggests the possible existence of addi...
Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen capable of causing various infections ranging from superficial skin infections to life-threatening severe diseases, including pneumonia and sepsis. This bacterium is attached to biotic and abiotic surfaces and forms biofilms that are resistant to co...
The hydroxycinnamic acid amides (HCAAs) are a diverse group of plant specialized phenylpropanoid metabolites distributed widely in the plant kingdom and are known to be involved in tolerance to abiotic and biotic stress. The HCAA clovamide is reported in a small number of distantly related species. ...
Effect of peptide IDR-1 on CD14+ human monocytes. >br< >br< Effect of peptide IDR-1 on LPS-induced responses in CD14+ human monocytes.>br< >br< Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were treated with innate defence regulator peptide IDR-1 in the presence and absence of LPS (purified from P...
The objective of the study was to evaluate transcriptional response of endotoxin-stimulated human monocytic cells in presence and absence of host defense peptide LL-37. A functional genomics approach was used to establish a temporal transcriptional profile and identify differentially expressed gene...
