Small wonders
Subtitle: peptides for disease control
By: Kanniah Rajasekaran ... [et al.], editor[s]
Contributors: American Chemical Society. Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Series: ACS symposium series -- 1095; ACS symposium series -- 1095.
Publisher: American Chemical Society; Distributed by Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, DC; [New York, NY]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780841227484
Subjects: Anti-Infective Agents; Therapeutics; Plant Diseases; Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides
Notes: "Sponsored by the ACS Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Inc."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Immunomodulatory cationic peptide therapeutics : a new paradigm in infection and immunity; title: Structure/function link between cytokine domains and natural and designed lytic peptides : medical promise; title: The potential of frog skin antimicrobial peptides for development into therapeutically valuable anti-infective agents; title: Obstacles and solutions to the use of cationic antimicrobial peptides in the treatment of cancer; title: Lytic peptides as anti-cancer therapeutics : lessons learned from a novel design approach; title: Strategies for designing peptide immunogens to elicit : helical conformation-specific antibodies reactive with native proteins; title: Defensins in viral infection; title: "GENOPEP," a topical cream in the treatment of burn wounds; title: Developing influenza antigen microarrays for seroprofiling; title: pH-directed self-assembling helical peptide conformation; title: Controlling symbiotic microbes with antimicrobial peptides; title: Antimicrobial peptides for plant disease control : from discovery to application; title: Antimicrobial peptides as a promising alternative for plant disease protection; title: Strategies for controlling plant diseases and mycotoxin contamination using antimicrobial synthetic peptides; title: Antifungal plant defensins : structure-activity relationships, modes of action, and biotech applications; title: Antifungal peptides : exploiting non-lytic mechanisms and cell penetration properties; title: Thionin antifungal peptide synthesis in transgenic barley; title: Expression of designed anti-microbial peptides in theobroma cacao L. trees reduces leaf necrosis caused by phytophthora spp; title: Antimicrobial peptides for fire blight control; title: Thionins : nature's weapons of mass protection; title: Transgenic expression of antimicrobial peptides in plants : strategies for enhanced disease resistance, improved productivity, and production of therapeutics.