Proteinase Inhibitors in Plants
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2022) | Viewed by 235
Special Issue Editors
Interests: crop biotechnology; plant storage proteins; plant proteases; plant protease inhibitors; plant hydrolases
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Dear Colleagues,
Plants produce a variety of proteases (or proteinases) for different functions: from internal nitrogen turnover, i.e., storage protein breakdown proteases, to other specific proteases that are involved in the defense against pathogens (microbial or nematodes/herbivores). For each class of proteases, the plant also produces specific inhibitors to counterbalance the internal proteolysis homeostasis or prepare for defense against pathogen attacks coming from heterologous microbial or insect proteases. To date, a deep knowledge of the plant protease inhibitor and its genes is missing since we have only recently begun to elucidate the interactions between host protease inhibitors and pathogen proteases or protease inhibitors versus plant defense proteases. The biotechnological use of new breeding techniques (i.e. CRISPR/Cas9) is emerging in the exploitation of the activation of plant protease inhibitors for increasing plant susceptibility to fungal or nematodes/insects. This Special Issue is hence open to researchers who aim to discover new functions to known proteases inhibitors and their biotechnological aims and increase the knowledge of plant protease inhibitors in vitro or in planta by studying their effects using CRISPR/cas9, transgenic, or RNAi as proof of concept. Further, other omics approaches, e.g., differential transcriptomics (mRNAseq), proteomics, and genomics, could complement and narrow down their target or pleiotropic effects related to the defense mechanism in question.
Dr. Giuseppe Dionisio
Dr. Michael Panting
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- proteinase inhibitors
- protease inhibitors
- serpins
- Bowman–Birk inhibitors
- k-unit type inhibitors
- trypsin/α-amylase inhibitors
- potato type I and II chymotrypsin inhibitors
- BASI
- cysteine protease inhibitors
- aspartyl and metalloprotease inhibitors
