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Publications and Patents
Hexima researchers pride themselves on publishing quality, cutting-edge science in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals. Hexima’s latest publications can be found on the right along with a list of Hexima patents.
Hexima Publications
Gaspar, YM, McKenna, JA, McGinness, BS, Hinch, J, Poon, S, Connelly, AA, Anderson, MA and Heath, RL. Field resistance to Fusarium oxysporum and Verticillium dahliae in transgenic cotton expressing the plant defensin NaD1. J Exp Botany 65: 1541–1550. 2014
Bleackley MR, Hayes BM, Parisi K, Saiyed T, Traven A, Potter ID, van der Weerden NL, Anderson MA., Bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor is a new antifungal peptide that inhibits cellular magnesium uptake., Mol Microbiol. 2014
Poon IK, Baxter AA, Lay FT, Mills GD, Adda CG, Payne JA, Phan TK, Ryan GF, White JA, Veneer PK, van der Weerden NL, Anderson MA, Kvansakul M, Hulett MD., Phosphoinositide-mediated oligomerization of a defensin induces cell lysis., Elife. 2014
Bleackley MR, Wiltshire JL, Perrine-Walker F, Vasa S, Burns RL, van der Weerden NL, Anderson MA., Agp2p, the plasma membrane transregulator of polyamine uptake, regulates the antifungal activities of the plant defensin NaD1 and other cationic peptides., Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2014
Hayes BM, Anderson MA, Traven A, van der Weerden NL, Bleackley MR., Activation of stress signalling pathways enhances tolerance of fungi to chemical fungicides and antifungal proteins., Cell Mol Life Sci. 2014
Lay FT, Poon S, McKenna JA, Connelly AA, Barbeta BL, McGinness BS, Fox JL, Daly NL, Craik DJ, Heath RL, Anderson MA., The C-terminal propeptide of a plant defensin confers cytoprotective and subcellular targeting functions., BMC Plant Biol. 2014
Dracatos PM, van der Weerden NL, Carroll KT, Johnson ED, Plummer KM, Anderson MA., Inhibition of cereal rust fungi by both class I and II defensins derived from the flowers of Nicotiana alata., Mol Plant Pathol. 2014
Hayes BM, Bleackley MR, Wiltshire JL, Anderson MA, Traven A, van der Weerden NL., Identification and mechanism of action of the plant defensin NaD1 as a new member of the antifungal drug arsenal against Candida albicans., Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2013
Garvey M, Meehan S, Gras SL, Schirra HJ, Craik DJ, Van der Weerden NL, Anderson MA, Gerrard JA, Carver JA., A radish seed antifungal peptide with a high amyloid fibril-forming propensity., Biochim Biophys Acta. 2013
van der Weerden NL, Bleackley MR, Anderson MA., Properties and mechanisms of action of naturally occurring antifungal peptides., Cell Mol Life Sci. 2013
Stevens JA, Dunse KM, Guarino RF, Barbeta BL, Evans SC, West JA, Anderson MA., The impact of ingested potato type II inhibitors on the production of the major serine proteases in the gut of Helicoverpa armigera., Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2013
Conlan BF, Colgrave ML, Gillon AD, Guarino R, Craik DJ, Anderson MA., Insights into processing and cyclization events associated with biosynthesis of the cyclic Peptide kalata B1., J Biol Chem. 2012
Lay FT, Mills GD, Poon IK, Cowieson NP, Kirby N, Baxter AA, van der Weerden NL, Dogovski C, Perugini MA, Anderson MA, Kvansakul M, Hulett MD., Dimerization of plant defensin NaD1 enhances its antifungal activity., J Biol Chem. 2012
Conlan BF, Anderson MA., Circular micro-proteins and mechanisms of cyclization., Curr Pharm Des. 2011
Conlan BF, Gillon AD, Barbeta BL, Anderson MA., Subcellular targeting and biosynthesis of cyclotides in plant cells., Am J Bot. 2011
van der Weerden NL, Hancock RE, Anderson MA., Permeabilization of fungal hyphae by the plant defensin NaD1 occurs through a cell wall-dependent process., J Biol Chem. 2010
Dunse KM, Kaas Q, Guarino RF, Barton PA, Craik DJ, Anderson MA., Molecular basis for the resistance of an insect chymotrypsin to a potato type II proteinase inhibitor., Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2010
Dunse KM, Stevens JA, Lay FT, Gaspar YM, Heath RL, Anderson MA., Coexpression of potato type I and II proteinase inhibitors gives cotton plants protection against insect damage in the field., Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2010
Conlan BF, Gillon AD, Craik DJ, Anderson MA., Circular proteins and mechanisms of cyclization., Biopolymers. 2010
Schirra HJ, Anderson MA, Craik DJ., Structural refinement of insecticidal plant proteinase inhibitors from Nicotiana alata., Protein Pept Lett. 2008
van der Weerden NL, Lay FT, Anderson MA., The plant defensin, NaD1, enters the cytoplasm of Fusarium oxysporum hyphae., J Biol Chem. 2008
Barbeta BL, Marshall AT, Gillon AD, Craik DJ, Anderson MA., Plant cyclotides disrupt epithelial cells in the midgut of lepidopteran larvae., Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2008
Gillon AD, Saska I, Jennings CV, Guarino RF, Craik DJ, Anderson MA., Biosynthesis of circular proteins in plants., Plant J. 2008
Jennings CV, Rosengren KJ, Daly NL, Plan M, Stevens J, Scanlon MJ, Waine C, Norman DG, Anderson MA, Craik DJ., Isolation, solution structure, and insecticidal activity of kalata B2, a circular protein with a twist: do Möbius strips exist in nature?, Biochemistry. 2005
Lay FT, Anderson MA., Defensins–components of the innate immune system in plants., Curr Protein Pept Sci. 2005
Janssen BJ, Schirra HJ, Lay FT, Anderson MA, Craik DJ., Structure of Petunia hybrida defensin 1, a novel plant defensin with five disulfide bonds., Biochemistry. 2003
Anderson MA, Van Heeswijck R, West J, Bateman K, Lee M, Christeller JT, McDonald G, Heath RL., Proteinase inhibitors from Nicotiana alata enhance plant resistance to insect pests., J Insect Physiol. 1997
Lay FT, Brugliera F, Anderson MA., Isolation and properties of floral defensins from ornamental tobacco and petunia., Plant Physiol. 2003
Lay FT, Schirra HJ, Scanlon MJ, Anderson MA, Craik DJ., The three-dimensional solution structure of NaD1, a new floral defensin from Nicotiana alata and its application to a homology model of the crop defense protein alfAFP., J Mol Biol. 2003
Jennings C, West J, Waine C, Craik D, Anderson M., Biosynthesis and insecticidal properties of plant cyclotides: the cyclic knotted proteins from Oldenlandia affinis., Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2001
Nielsen KJ, Hill JM, Anderson MA, Craik DJ., Synthesis and structure determination by NMR of a putative vacuolar targeting peptide and model of a proteinase inhibitor from Nicotiana alata., Biochemistry. 1996
Hexima Patents
A Method of in vivo Treatment
(2015) Publication Number: Not yet available
A Method of Treatment
(2015) Publication Number: Not yet available
Agents and Methods of Treatment
(2015) Publication Number: Not yet available
Agents and Methods for Treatment of Pathogens
(2015) Publication Number: Not yet available
Use of Antifungal Defensins
(2013) Publication Number: Not yet available
Anti Pathogenic Methods
(2013) Publication Number: WO 2014/078900
Novel Plant Defensins and Use in the Treatment of Proliferative Diseases
(2012) Publication Number: WO/2013/056309
Modified Plant Defensin Useful as Anti-Pathogenic Agents
(2012) Publication Number: WO 2012/106759
Treatment of Proliferative Diseases
(2011) Publication Number: WO/2011/160174
Plant Anti-Pathogen Systems
(2009) Publication Number: WO 2010/015024
Antifungal Methods
(2009) Publication Number: WO 2009/094719
Multi Gene Expression Vehicle
(2007) Publication Number: WO 2007/137329
Novel insect enzymes and inhibitors thereof
(2004) Publication Number: WO 2004/094630
Plant-derived molecules and genetic sequences encoding same and uses thereof
(2002) Publication Number: WO 2002/063011
Novel nucleic acid molecules
(2000) Publication Number: WO 2001/34829
A proteinase inhibitor, precursor thereof and genetic sequences encoding same
(1993) Publication Number: WO 1994/013810
Glossary
| Agrobacterium | a naturally occurring soil bacterium that can be used to transfer genes into a plant cell and thus create a transgenic plant |
| Anti-fungal Protein | a protein that limits the growth of or kills a fungal pathogen |
| Bioassay | a biological test to assess whether a molecule limits the growth or kills a biological organism such as a fungus or an insect |
| Bt | Bacillus thuringiensis, a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces insecticidal toxins |
| Bt Technology | an existing insect resistance technology which involves production of the Bt-insecticidal toxins in transgenic plants |
| Construct | a synthetic gene or series of genes that have been created in the laboratory. Constructs carry the genetic code for production of proteins of interest or a desired trait in a transgenic organism (eg a plant) |
| Defensin | an antifungal protein |
| Event | an event occurs when a transgene is inserted into the host DNA (eg the plant DNA). Different insertions are classified as separate events |
| Expression | when a gene is turned on to produce a protein |
| Freedom to Operate | rights to all the intellectual property needed to commercialise a transgenic plant |
| Fungal Pathogens | any fungus causing disease |
| Fusarium Wilt | a disease caused by Fusarium species which causes wilt in affected plants |
| Germplasm | the heredity material from an organism such as an elite plant cultivar (seed) |
| Heterozygous | any cell or organism having different genes at the same position in a pair of chromosomes. A hemizygous transgenic plant has only one copy of the transgene |
| Homozygous | any cell or organism having identical genes at the same position in a pair of chromosomes |
| Hybrid | the offspring of plants of different species or different varieties of the same species |
| MGEV | Hexima’s Multi-Gene Expression Vehicle, a technology which facilitates the production of multiple proteins in a plant from a single transgene |
| Peptide | a small chain of amino acids |
| Promoters | a piece of DNA that functions as a switch to turn genes on and off |
| Protein | a linear polymer of amino acids linked in a specific sequence determined by a gene |
| Proteinase | an enzyme that catalyses the splitting of proteins into smaller peptides and amino acids |
| Proteinase Inhibitors (PI’s) | proteins that inhibit the catalytic activity of proteinases |
| Stacking | the combination of several Traits in a crop seed |
| Selectable Marker | a gene and it’s product that can be used to select transgenic cells. For example, a gene that confers resistance to an antibiotic or a herbicide |
| Trait | a character conferred either by conventional breeding or by gene technology to a plant, such as insect resistance or fungal resistance |
| Transient Expression | temporary or short lived production of a protein from a transgene |
| Verticillium Wilt | a disease caused by Verticillium dahliae which causes wilt in affected plants |