title: Plant peptides in defense and signaling.
abstract: This review focuses on plant peptides involved in defense against pathogen infection and those involved in the regulation of growth and development. Defense peptides, defensins, cyclotides and anti-microbial peptides are compared and contrasted. Signaling peptides are classified according to their major sites of activity. Finally, a network approach to creating an interactomic peptide map is described.
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11A, 43124 Parma, Italy. Electronic address: nelson.marmiroli@unipr.it.
authors.forename: Nelson
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Marmiroli
authors.affiliation: Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maestri
mesh_terms: D047169:Cyclotides / Q000378:metabolism; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D010455:Peptides / Q000378:metabolism*; D010944:Plants / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D049490:Systems Biology
chemical_list: D047169:Cyclotides; D010455:Peptides
keywords: Arabidopsis thaliana; Interactome; Mass spectrometry; Systems biology