One mechanism used by plants to respond to infection is the production of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). In addition to a role in defence, AMPs seem to have other biological functions. Furthermore, the number of cysteine-rich AMP-like peptides appears to have been underpredicted in plant genomes. Such peptides could be involved in plant defence and/or in other biological processes. Here we generated an interaction network between 15 AMPs/AMP-like peptides and ca. 8000 other Arabidopsis thaliana proteins (AtORFeome2.0) and found 53 putative novel interactions. These interactions involve five transcription factors, a subunit of the COP9 signalosome, a heat shock protein, a MAP kinase kinase, a thioredoxin and 4 uncharacterized proteins.
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Damon, C., Dmitrieva, J., Muhovski, Y., Francis, F., Lins, L., Ledoux, Q., Luwaert, W., Marko, I., Mauro, S., Ongena, M., Thonart, P., Veys, P., Twizere, J.-C., & Vandenbol, M. (2012). Interaction network of antimicrobial peptides of Arabidopsis thaliana, based on high-throughput yeast two-hybrid screening. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 58(1), 245-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2012.07.007 (Original work published 2012)