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JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
卷 58, 期 19, 页码 10729-10735出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jf102277k
关键词
Protease inhibitor; Vicia faba; innate immunity; antifungal protein; Valsa mali
A new 15 kDa Bowman Birk type trypsin inhibitor (termed VFTI-E1) from lava beans ( Vicia faba cv. Egypt 1) was isolated using liquid chromatography. Though it exhibited substantial homology in N-terminal amino acid sequence to other protease inhibitors, VFTI-E1 showed antiproteolytic activity against trypsin (K-i 11.9 x 10(-9) M) but hardly any activity against chymotrypsin. It demonstrated antifungal activity toward the filamentous fungus Valsa mali with an IC50 of 20 mu M. The mechanism of its antifungal action toward V. malt included (1) induction of alteration of hyphal morphology, (2) growth inhibition by chitin deposition at hyphal tips, and (3) permeabilization of fungal membrane. The antifungal activity of VFTI-E1 was dependent on the ambient ionic strength as increasing concentrations of NaCl, CaCl2, and MgCl2 diminished the activity. The membranolytic action of VFTI-E1 was confined to fungus, but not exerted on human and rabbit erythrocytes. This study sheds light on the mode of hyphal growth inhibitory activity of protease inhibitors with antifungal activity. The antifungal activity of VFTI-E1 amplifies the scope of its potential applications.
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