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A continent of plant defense peptide diversity: cyclotides in Australian Hybanthus (Violaceae).
The Plant cell - 1 Nov 2005
Simonsen Shane M, Sando Lillian, Ireland David C, Colgrave Michelle L, Bharathi Rekha, Göransson Ulf, Craik David J
Abstract excerpt
Cyclotides are plant-derived miniproteins that have the unusual features of a head-to-tail cyclized peptide backbone and a knotted arrangement of disulfide bonds. It had been postulated that they might be an especially large family of host defense agents, but this had not yet been tested by field data on cyclotide variation in wild plant populations. In this study, we sampled Australian Hybanthus (Violaceae) to...
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