Making plants into cost-effective bioreactors for highly active antimicrobial peptides
M. R. Ghidey, S. M. A. Islam, G. Pruett, C. M. Kearney
This study identifies a method to express antimicrobial peptides in plants using elastin-like polypeptide fusions, achieving high yields and antimicrobial activity without requiring peptide cleavage.
bioRxiv · Mar 20, 2019Plant Biology