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Plant Antimicrobial Agents and Their Effects on Plant and Human Pathogens

To protect themselves, plants accumulate an armoury of antimicrobial secondary metabolites. Some metabolites represent constitutive chemical barriers to microbial attack (phytoanticipins) and others inducible antimicrobials (phytoalexins). They are extensively studied as promising plant and human di...

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Autores principales: González-Lamothe, Rocío, Mitchell, Gabriel, Gattuso, Mariza, Diarra, Moussa S., Malouin, François, Bouarab, Kamal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20111686
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms10083400
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author González-Lamothe, Rocío
Mitchell, Gabriel
Gattuso, Mariza
Diarra, Moussa S.
Malouin, François
Bouarab, Kamal
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Gattuso, Mariza
Diarra, Moussa S.
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description To protect themselves, plants accumulate an armoury of antimicrobial secondary metabolites. Some metabolites represent constitutive chemical barriers to microbial attack (phytoanticipins) and others inducible antimicrobials (phytoalexins). They are extensively studied as promising plant and human disease-controlling agents. This review discusses the bioactivity of several phytoalexins and phytoanticipins defending plants against fungal and bacterial aggressors and those with antibacterial activities against pathogens affecting humans such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus involved in respiratory infections of cystic fibrosis patients. The utility of plant products as “antibiotic potentiators” and “virulence attenuators” is also described as well as some biotechnological applications in phytoprotection.
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spelling pubmed-28128292010-01-28 Plant Antimicrobial Agents and Their Effects on Plant and Human Pathogens González-Lamothe, Rocío Mitchell, Gabriel Gattuso, Mariza Diarra, Moussa S. Malouin, François Bouarab, Kamal Int J Mol Sci Review To protect themselves, plants accumulate an armoury of antimicrobial secondary metabolites. Some metabolites represent constitutive chemical barriers to microbial attack (phytoanticipins) and others inducible antimicrobials (phytoalexins). They are extensively studied as promising plant and human disease-controlling agents. This review discusses the bioactivity of several phytoalexins and phytoanticipins defending plants against fungal and bacterial aggressors and those with antibacterial activities against pathogens affecting humans such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus involved in respiratory infections of cystic fibrosis patients. The utility of plant products as “antibiotic potentiators” and “virulence attenuators” is also described as well as some biotechnological applications in phytoprotection. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2009-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2812829/ /pubmed/20111686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms10083400 Text en © 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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title Plant Antimicrobial Agents and Their Effects on Plant and Human Pathogens
title_full Plant Antimicrobial Agents and Their Effects on Plant and Human Pathogens
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title_short Plant Antimicrobial Agents and Their Effects on Plant and Human Pathogens
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812829/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms10083400
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