A Robust Cysteine-Deficient Chitinase-like Antifungal Protein from Inner Shoots of the Edible Chive Allium tuberosum

Isolation of a Novel Deoxyribonuclease with Antifungal Activity from Asparagus officinalis Seeds

“…An aliquot (6 l) of the asparagus DNase was added to a disk. The plates were incubated at 23°C for 72 h until mycelial growth had enveloped disks containing the control and had formed crescents of inhibition around disks containing samples with antifungal activity (26).…”

A Bowman–Birk-Type Trypsin-Chymotrypsin Inhibitor from Broad Beans

“…To date a diversity of antifungal proteins with different amino acid sequences has been isolated. Based on their structures or activities antifungal proteins have been classified into chitinases (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6), glucanases (2), thaumatin-like proteins (7,8), miraculin-like proteins (9), cyclophilin-like proteins (10), allergen-like proteins (11), embryo-abundant protein-like proteins (12), ribosome inactivating proteins (13,14), and antifungal peptides (15).…”

Antifungal and prophylactic activity of pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) extract against Aspergillus flavus and aflatoxin B1

“…Cucurmoschin inhibited mycelial growth in the fungi Botrytis cinerea, Fusarium oxysporum and Mycosphaerella oxysporum. The authors also stated that the cucurmoschin showed a translationinhibitory activity (IC50 = 1.2 µM) which was more effective than some of the antifungal proteins (Lam et al, 2000, 2002 and the antifungal peptides from red bean, pinto bean (Ye and Ng, 2001) and chickpea (Ye et al, 2002). Ribosome-inactivating proteins inhibit translation in rabbit reticulocyte lysate with a much higher potency (IC 50 in pM concentration) (Barbieri et al, 1993) and they also inactivate fungal ribosomes (Roberts and Selitrennikoff, 1986).…”