Novel antimicrobial peptides identified in legume plant, Medicago truncatula
ABSTRACTOne of the major issues in healthcare today is antibiotic resistance. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), a subclass of host defense peptides, have been suggested as a viable solution for the multidrug resistance problem. Legume plants express more than 700 nodule-specific cysteine-rich (NCR) pep...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2024-02-01
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Series: | Microbiology Spectrum |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01827-23 |