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. 2025 May 15;13:100145. doi: 10.1016/j.tcsw.2025.100145

Table 3.

Plant-Derived Peptides in Pharmaceutical Fields.

Name Origin Bioactivities Target Organisms Other bioactivities References
DmAMP1, HsAFP1, and RsAFP2 plant anti human pathogenic microorganisms Aspergillus flavus, Candida albicans, Candida krusei, and Fusarium proliferatum (Thevissen et al., 2007)
OsAFP1 rice Oryza sativa anti human pathogenic microorganisms Candida albicans (Ochiai et al., 2018)
cyclotides sweet violet Viola odorata anti human pathogenic microorganisms Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2, Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus (Pranting et al., 2010; Strömstedt et al., 2017)
bleogens cactaceae Pereskia bleo anti human pathogenic microorganisms Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis (Loo et al., 2017)
hispidalin Benincasa hispida anti human pathogenic microorganisms Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella enterica, Aspergillus flavus, Penicillium chrysogenum, Fusarium Solani, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, and Curvularia geniculata (Sharma et al., 2014)
cyclotides Oldenlandia affinis anti human pathogenic microorganisms anti-plasmodial anti-inflammatory (Nworu et al., 2017)
iturins and fengycins plant-derived Bacillus subtilis anti human pathogenic microorganisms Alcaligenes faecalis, Achromobacter xylosoxidans, Pseudomonas alcaligenes, and Pseudomonas putida,Klebsiella aerogenes, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa inhibit planktonic and sessile growth (de Souza Freitas et al., 2020)
Peoriaerin II Millettia pachycarpa-derived Paenibacillus peoriae anti human pathogenic microorganisms Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Candida species (Ngashangva et al., 2021a)
RsAFP2 Raphanus sativus anti human pathogenic microorganisms Candida albicans synergize with the antifungal drug caspofungin (Vriens et al., 2016)
CaThi Capsicum annuum anti human pathogenic microorganisms Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa synergize with the antifungal drug fluconazole (Taveira et al., 2014) (Taveira et al., 2017)
CyO2 Viola odorata L. Violaceae anti human pathogenic microorganisms HIV-1-infected Cells and Infectious Viral Particles (Gerlach et al., 2013)
alstotides Alstonia scholaris anti human pathogenic microorganisms infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) and dengue virus (Nguyen et al., 2015)
Luffin P1 sponge gourd Luffa cylindrica anti human pathogenic microorganisms HIV-1 (Ng et al., 2011)
Pep-RTYM Acacia catechu anti human pathogenic microorganisms dengue virus (DENV) (Panya et al., 2020)
leucinostatin A Taxus baccata-derived Acremonium sp. anticancer prostate stromal cells (prostate cancer) (Kawada et al., 2010)
beauvericin plant-derived Fusarium sp. anticancer MDA-MB-231 (breast cancer), PC-3 M (prostate cancer), A549 (human non-small cell lung cancer), CCRF-CEM (human leukemia), HepG2 (human hepatocellular carcinoma), SH-SY5Y (human neuroblastoma), KBv200 (human oral squamous carcinoma cell), A375SM (human melanoma), etc. immunomodulatory (Liu et al., 2024)
new peptide-type 1 and 2 Dendrobium officinale-derived Streptomyces anticancer Hep3B2.1–7 (liver cancer) and H1299 (Lung Cancer) (Zhao et al., 2020)
viscotoxins mistletoe anticancer rat osteosarcoma and human lymphocytes (Büssing et al., 1999a; Büssing et al., 1999b; Kong et al., 2004)
Pyrularia thionin American mistletoe Pyrularia pubera anticancer HeLa (cervical cancer), B16 (murine melanoma) (Evans et al., 1989)
PaDef Persea americana var. drymifolia anticancer breast cancer and chronic myeloid leukemia (Guzmán-Rodríguez et al., 2016) (Jiménez-Alcántar et al., 2022)
NaD1 Tobacco anticancer monocytic lymphoma U937 (Poon et al., 2014)
CyO2 Viola odorata L. Violaceae anticancer breast cancer (Gerlach et al., 2010)
colletotrichamides A-E halophyte-derived Colletotrichum gloeosporioides JS419 Alzheimer intervention HT22 cells (Bang et al., 2019)
BZR-cotoxin I and BZR-cotoxin IV Rhazya stricta-derived Bipolaris sorokiniana LK12 Alzheimer intervention acetylcholinesterase, lipid peroxidation, urease (Ali et al., 2016)
cyclic peptide cucumber roots-derived Paecilomyces formosus LHL10 diabetes intervention urease and α-glucosidase (Bilal et al., 2018)
Acacia nilotica-derived Aspergillus awamori diabetes intervention α-amylase and α-glucosidase (Singh et al., 2016) (Singh and Kaur, 2016)