Studies Calculated a New Chitin Oligomer Binding Site Inside Vicilin: A Potent Antifungal and Insecticidal Agent

• Main Authors: Ahsan Saeed (Author), Zahra Rafiq (Author), Muhammad Imran (Author), Qamar Saeed (Author), Muhammad Q. Saeed (Author), Zahid Ali (Author), Rana K. Iqbal (Author), Saber Hussain (Author), Binish Khaliq (Author), Sohaib Mehmood (Author), Ahmed Akrem (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Vicilins are major seed storage proteins and show differential binding affinities toward sugar moieties of fungal cell wall and insect gut epithelium. Hence, purpose of study is the thorough in-silico characterization of interactions between vicilin and chitin oligomer followed by fungal and insecti...