Butterfly Pea (Clitoria ternatea), a Cyclotide-Bearing Plant With Applications in Agriculture and Medicine

GK Oguis, EK Gilding, MA Jackson… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The perennial leguminous herb Clitoria ternatea (butterfly pea) has attracted significant
interest based on its agricultural and medical applications, which range from use as a fodder …

Cyclotides: from structure to function

SJ De Veer, MW Kan, DJ Craik - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
This Review explores the class of plant-derived macrocyclic peptides called cyclotides. We
include an account of their discovery, characterization, and distribution in the plant kingdom …

Peptides, new tools for plant protection in eco-agriculture

YM Zhang, DX Ye, Y Liu, XY Zhang, YL Zhou… - Advanced …, 2023 - Elsevier
As important physiological regulators, peptides have been used in many fields including
medicine, cosmetics, healthcare products, animal nutrition and health, and plant nutrition …

[HTML][HTML] Immunomodulatory peptides—A promising source for novel functional food production and drug discovery

M Pavlicevic, N Marmiroli, E Maestri - Peptides, 2022 - Elsevier
Immunomodulatory peptides are a complex class of bioactive peptides that encompasses
substances with different mechanisms of action. Immunomodulatory peptides could also be …

Molecular basis for the production of cyclic peptides by plant asparaginyl endopeptidases

MA Jackson, EK Gilding, T Shafee, KS Harris… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Asparaginyl endopeptidases (AEPs) are proteases that have crucial roles in plant defense
and seed storage protein maturation. Select plant AEPs, however, do not function as …

Discovery, structure, function, and applications of cyclotides: circular proteins from plants

J Weidmann, DJ Craik - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Cyclotides are plant-derived cyclic peptides that have a head-to-tail cyclic backbone and
three conserved disulphide bonds that form a cyclic cystine knot motif. They occur in plants …

A Revised Phylogenetic Classification for Viola (Violaceae)

T Marcussen, HE Ballard, J Danihelka, AR Flores… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The genus Viola (Violaceae) is among the 40–50 largest genera among angiosperms, yet its
taxonomy has not been revised for nearly a century. In the most recent revision, by Wilhelm …

[PDF][PDF] A relation between ethnobotany and bioprospecting of edible flower Butterfly Pea (Clitoria ternatea) in Indonesia

WF Afrianto, F Tamnge, LN Hasanah - Asian Journal of Ethnobiology, 2020 - smujo.id
Afrianto WF, Tamnge F, Hasanah LN. 2020. Review: A relation between ethnobotany and
bioprospecting of edible flower Butterfly Pea (Clitoria ternatea) in Indonesia. Asian J …

Papain-like cysteine proteases prepare plant cyclic peptide precursors for cyclization

FBH Rehm, MA Jackson, E De Geyter… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Cyclotides are plant defense peptides that have been extensively investigated for
pharmaceutical and agricultural applications, but key details of their posttranslational …

The potential of the cyclotide scaffold for drug development

JA Camarero, MJ Campbell - Biomedicines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cyclotides are a novel class of micro-proteins (≈ 30–40 residues long) with a unique
topology containing a head-to-tail cyclized backbone structure further stabilized by three …