Journal
PEPTIDES
Volume 24, Issue 7, Pages 969-972Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(03)00191-8
Keywords
antifungal peptide; pumpkin; seeds; isolation
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A novel antifungal peptide, with a molecular mass of 8 kDa in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and in gel filtration on Superdex 75 and designated cucurmoschin, was isolated from the seeds of the black pumpkin. The peptide was unadsorbed on DEAE-cellulose but adsorbed on Affi-gel blue gel. Cucurmoschin inhibited mycelial growth in the fungi Botrytis cinerea, Fusarium oxysporum and Mycosphaerella oxysporum. It inhibited translation in a cell-free rabbit reticulocyte lysate system with an IC50 of 1.2 muM. The N-terminal sequence of cucurmoschin was rich in arginine, glutamate and glycine residues. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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