Diversity of Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides in Black Cumin (Nigella sativa L.) Seeds
Journal: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Year: 2023

Black cumin (<i>Nigella sativa</i> L.) is known to possess a wide variety of antimicrobial peptides belonging to different structural families. Three novel antimicrobial peptides have been isolated from black cumin seeds. Two of them were attributed as members of the non-specific lipid transfer proteins family, and one as a defensin. We have made an attempt of using the proteomic approach for novel antimicrobial peptides search in <i>N. sativa</i> seeds as well. The use of a well-established app