Antimicrobial Activity of NCR Plant Peptides Strongly Depends on the Test Assays

The symbiosis specific NCR247 and NCR335 cationic plant peptides of Medicago truncatula have been shown to exert antimicrobial activity against a wide range of microbes. However, their antimicrobial efficiency is clearly limited by divalent cations. Here, the antibacterial and antifungal activities...

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Main Authors: Attila Farkas, Bernadett Pap, Éva Kondorosi, Gergely Maróti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02600/full