ReviewPhytochemistry2015
Toxic proteins in plants.
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- The Entomotoxic Fungal LectinJournal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2026Article
- Calcium propionate in tortillas - a likely cause of a large outbreak of acute gastrointestinal illness, Finland, 2023.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026Article
- Acute Toxicity and Genotoxicity of cMoL, a Lectin From Moringa oleifera Seeds With Antifungal Activity Against Cryptococcus Strains.Journal of applied toxicology : JAT · 2026Article
- Soybean fermentation drives the production of native neuroprotective peptides based on a peptidomics strategy.Current research in food science · 2025Article
- The fusion protein of scorpion neurotoxin BjαIT and Galanthus nivalis agglutinin (GNA) enhanced the injection insecticidal activity against silkworms, but only has lethal activity against newly hatched larva when administered orally.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2024Article
- Antifungal Effect of Bauhinia variegata Lectin (BvL) on Bipolaris oryzae.Current microbiology · 2024Article
- Plant proteins, peptides, and non-protein amino acids: Toxicity, sources, and analysis.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Genetic Functionalization of Protein-Based Biomaterials via Protein Fusions.Biomacromolecules · 2024Review
- Evaluation of Cytotoxicity and Acute Oral Toxicity of Saline Extract and Protein-Rich Fraction fromPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Interaction of the lysozyme with anticoagulant drug warfarin: Spectroscopic and computational analyses.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Nutritional parameters and productive performance of grazing sheep using castor bean cake as supplement or fertilizer.Tropical animal health and production · 2024Article
- MultiToxPred 1.0: a novel comprehensive tool for predicting 27 classes of protein toxins using an ensemble machine learning approach.BMC bioinformatics · 2024Article
- Visible Light Control over the Cytolytic Activity of a Toxic Pore-Forming Protein.ACS chemical biology · 2024Article
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- Insect α-Amylases and Their Application in Pest Management.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Plant Toxic Proteins: Their Biological Activities, Mechanism of Action and Removal Strategies.Toxins · 2023Review
- Discovery of a rapidly evolving yeast defense factor,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- A review on anti-nutritional factors: unraveling the natural gateways to human health.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Review
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Abstract
Plants have evolved to synthesize a variety of noxious compounds to cope with unfavorable circumstances, among which a large group of toxic proteins that play a critical role in plant defense against predators and microbes. Up to now, a wide range of harmful proteins have been discovered in different plants, including lectins, ribosome-inactivating proteins, protease inhibitors, ureases, arcelins, antimicrobial peptides and pore-forming toxins. To fulfill their role in plant defense, these proteins exhibit various degrees of toxicity towards animals, insects, bacteria or fungi. Numerous studies have been carried out to investigate the toxic effects and mode of action of these plant proteins in order to explore their possible applications. Indeed, because of their biological activities, toxic plant proteins are also considered as potentially useful tools in crop protection and in biomedical applications, such as cancer treatment. Genes encoding toxic plant proteins have been introduced into crop genomes using genetic engineering technology in order to increase the plant's resistance against pathogens and diseases. Despite the availability of ample information on toxic plant proteins, very few publications have attempted to summarize the research progress made during the last decades. This review focuses on the diversity of toxic plant proteins in view of their toxicity as well as their mode of action. Furthermore, an outlook towards the biological role(s) of these proteins and their potential applications is discussed.
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