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A new class of Scots pine antimicrobial proteins, which act by binding beta-glucan

  • Sanjeewani Sooriyaarachchi
  • , Adrian Suarez Covarrubias
  • , Wimal Ubhayasekera
  • , Frederick O. Asiegbu
  • , Sherry Mowbray

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    Sammanfattning

    Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) produces several small, highly homologous, disulfide-rich proteins (Sp-AMPs) in response to fungal pathogenic attacks. We report here the expression, structure and function of these proteins. One of the Sp-AMPs was cloned into and over-expressed in Pichia pastoris. The purified protein shows antifungal activity against Heterobasidion annosum, causing morphological changes in spores and hyphae. Binding studies revealed that it binds to soluble and insoluble beta-(1,3)-glucans, major components of the fungal cell wall, with high affinity. Homology modeling studies suggest a Greek-key-beta-barrel fold having a conserved patch on the surface that can accommodate at least 4 sugar units. We conclude that these proteins represent a new class of antimicrobial proteins that can be classified as pathogenesis related (PR) protein family 18.
    OriginalspråkEngelska
    Titel på värdpublikationScience and Technology Against Microbial Pathogens Research, Development and Evaluation Proceedings of the International Conference on Antimicrobial Research (ICAR2010), Valladolid, Spain, 3 – 5 November 2010
    FörlagWorld Scientific
    Sidor3-6
    Antal sidor4
    ISBN (tryckt)978-981-4354-85-1
    StatusPublicerad - 2011

    Nyckelord

    • Heterobasidion annosum
    • Pinus sylvestris
    • antimicrobial proteins
    • beta-(1,3)-glucan
    • binding
    • homology modelling
    • inhibition
    • pathogen

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