Non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) play a crucial role in lipid transport across membranes, contributing to cellular integrity and structural stability. These proteins are characterized by the presence of eight conserved cysteine residues...
Non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) are small cysteine-rich basic proteins which play essential roles in plant growth, development and abiotic/biotic stress response. However, there is limited information about the nsLTP gene (BnLTP) family...
Non-specific Lipid Transfer proteins (nsLTPs) are relevant allergens of several pollens and plant foods. Sensitization to nsLTPs is not typical in our region. Still, it has become an increasingly common cause of IgE-mediated food allergies and food-i...
(1) Background: Non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs), which belong to the prolamin superfamily, are potent allergens. While the biological role of LTPs is still not well understood, it is known that these proteins bind lipids. Allergen nsLTP...
Introduction: Allergy to nonspecific lipid transfer protein (nsLTP) is the main cause of plant-food allergy in Spain. nsLTPs are widely distributed in the plant kingdom and have high cross-reactivity but extremely variable clinical expression. Little...
Pectin, a dietary fiber, is a polysaccharide that is widely used in food industry as a gelling agent. In addition, prebiotic and beneficial immunomodulatory effects of pectin have been demonstrated, leading to increased importance as food supplement....
Non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) are small cysteine-rich proteins belonging to the cysteine-rich peptide (CRP) antimicrobial peptide superfamily, widely distributed across land plants and involved in key physiological processes including...
Pollen from common ragweed is an important allergen source worldwide and especially in western and southern Romania. More than 100 million patients suffer from symptoms of respiratory allergy (e.g., rhinitis, asthma) to ragweed pollen. Among the elev...
The biosynthesis and storage of lipids in oil crop seeds involve many gene families, such as nonspecific lipid-transfer proteins (nsLTPs). nsLTPs are cysteine-rich small basic proteins essential for plant development and survival. However, in sesame,...
Non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) stand out among plant-specific peptide superfamilies due to their multifaceted roles in plant molecular physiology and development, including their protective functions against pathogens. These antimicrob...
Background: Cross-reactivity between nonspecific lipid transfer proteins could cause anaphylaxis, further influencing food avoidance and nutrient deficiencies. The one affecting olive pollen (Ole e 7) and peach (Pru p 3) may underlie a variety of pol...
Non-specific Lipid Transfer Proteins (nsLTPs) constitute a ubiquitous family of plant proteins that play a critical role in mediating plant adaptation and tolerance to abiotic stress. While their functions have been extensively characterized in model...
Non-specific lipid-transfer proteins (nsLTPs) represent a family of plant antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) implicated in diverse physiological processes. However, their role in induced resistance (IR) triggered by non-pathogenic fungal strains and their...
The non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) are able to bind various hydrophobic compounds and facilitate the transport of fatty acids between intracellular membranes, and nsLTPs are found in rice endosperm and embryo during seed development. H...
Concomitant sensitisation to non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) from olive pollen (Ole e 7) and peach (Pru p 3) has been observed in the south of Spain. In the search for reasons to explain this observation, we studied a potential causal r...
Non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) constitute a widely distributed family of plant allergens with substantial clinical relevance, particularly in food allergy. Their marked thermal and proteolytic stability enables them to provoke reaction...
Plant non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) belong to a large multigene family that possesses complex physiological functions. Trichomes are present on the aerial surfaces of most plants and include both glandular secretory hairs and non-glan...
Chestnut (Castanea mollissima Blume) is an important economic tree owing to its tasty fruit and adaptability to environmental stresses, especially drought. Currently, there is limited information about non-specific lipid transfer protein (nsLTP) gene...
Background/Objectives: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) contribute to plant innate immunity and abiotic-stress adaptation, but their repertoires remain poorly characterized in extremophytic plants. We aimed to define AMP gene families and their expressi...
Food allergy (FA) has shown an increasing prevalence in the last decades, becoming a major public health problem. However, data on the prevalence of FA across the world are heterogeneous because they are influenced by several factors. Among IgE-media...
Sensitization to non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) is highly prevalent in Mediterranean countries. Pru p 3 from peach is a major allergen responsible for IgE-mediated food allergies. As a panallergen, Pru p 3 shows high sequence homology...
Common bean is one of the most important legume crops for human consumption. Its yield is adversely affected by environmental stress. Plant non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) are essential for plant growth, development, and resistance to a...
Plant non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) are small proteins capable of transferring phospholipids between membranes and binding non-specifically fatty acids in vitro. They constitute large gene families in plants, e.g., 83 in potato (Solan...
Pulses have desirable nutritional properties and a wide range of applications in the food industry as meat-free, casein-free, gluten-free, and functional food products. Unfortunately, the legume raw material contains some anti-nutrients and allergeni...
Recent evidence suggests that bioactive compounds isolated from cereals and legumes could exert some metabolic and vascular effects in humans. Due to the recent identification of a non-specific lipid transfer protein (nsLTP2) in wheat with antioxidan...
Nonspecific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) have been categorized as panallergens and display widespread occurrence across plant-kingdom. Present study, investigated B-cell epitopes for LTPs from chickpea, mung-bean, cowpea, pigeon-pea, and soybean...
Lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) play crucial regulatory roles in plant growth, development, and abiotic stress responses. Stipagrostis pennata is a species of grass widely distributed in arid and semi-arid regions, particularly adapted to desert and s...
Plant-food allergy is an increasing problem, with nonspecific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs) triggering mild/severe reactions. Pru p 3 is the major sensitizer in LTP food allergy (FA). However, in vivo and in vitro diagnosis is hampered by the need...
Introduction: SLIT for the treatment of plant food allergies has been demonstrated to be safe but less effective than OIT, but the latter is associated with more adverse reactions. The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a new...
Cannabis allergy is a relatively new phenomenon described in the 1970s. Its increased frequency has been observed over the last years due to the increasing therapeutic and recreational use of cannabis-based products. Sensitization possibly leading to...
Soil salinity severely restricts castor (Ricinus communis L.) seed germination, yet the molecular basis of this trait remains poorly understood. Here, we identified and functionally characterized RcnsLTPC, a nonspecific lipid transfer protein gene st...
Orange allergy is estimated to account for up to 3–4% of food allergies. Major allergens identified in orange (Citrus sinensis) include Cit s 1 (germin-like protein) and Cit s 2 (profilin), while Cit s 3 (non-specific lipid transfer protein, ns...
Cysteine-rich peptides (CRPs) play an important role in plant physiology. However, their role in resistance induced by biogenic elicitors remains poorly understood. Using whole-genome transcriptome sequencing and our CRP search algorithm, we analyzed...
β-aminobutyric acid (BABA) is a new environmentally friendly agent to induce disease resistance by priming of defense in plants. However, molecular mechanisms underlying BABA-induced priming defense are not fully understood. Here, comprehensive analy...
Drought stress during germination impairs seed germination and seedling development in wheat. Seed germination depends on embryo lipid mobilization for energy supply; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying lipid mobilization in drought stress g...
Wheat allergy (WA) poses a diagnostic challenge due to its diverse clinical phenotypes—ranging from classic food allergy and wheat-dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis (WDEIA) to baker’s asthma. An additional diagnostic aspect is serolo...
2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) is a vital exogenous auxin for the induction and proliferation of litchi embryogenic callus. At present, its molecular regulation mechanism remains unclear. In this study, transcriptome sequencing samples were s...
Wheat is one of the most important crops contributing to global food and nutritional security. However, the gradual increase in soil salt content significantly impairs wheat growth and development, ultimately resulting in reduced yields. Therefore, e...
Introduction: Different clinical and molecular patterns of food allergy have been reported in different areas of the world. The aim of the study is to evaluate differences in allergen patterns among nut-allergic patients in two different areas of Spa...
We have simulated a U-shape recessed channel floating gate memory by Sentaurus TCAD tools. Since the floating gate (FG) is vertically placed between source (S) and drain (D), and control gate (CG) and HfO2 high-k dielectric extend above source and dr...
In recent years, renewable energy generation (RPG) has experienced rapid growth, and large-scale hydro–wind–photovoltaic storage (HWPS) bases have been progressively developed in southwest China, where hydropower resources are abundant. E...