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Karin Thevissen

Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Publications -  173
Citations -  13665

Karin Thevissen is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Candida albicans & Plant defensin. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 168 publications receiving 11610 citations. Previous affiliations of Karin Thevissen include Catholic University of Leuven.

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Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

Daniel J. Klionsky, +1287 more
- 01 Apr 2012 - 
TL;DR: These guidelines are presented for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macroautophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes.
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Antimicrobial Peptides from Plants

Willem F. Broekaert, +5 more
- 01 Jan 1997 - 
TL;DR: All antimicrobial peptides studied thus far appear to exert their antimicrobial effect at the level of the plasma membrane of the target microorganism, but the different peptide types are likely to act via different mechanisms.
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Isolation and characterisation of plant defensins from seeds of Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Hippocastanaceae and Saxifragaceae

Rupert W. Osborn, +8 more
- 17 Jul 1995 - 
TL;DR: Five antifungal proteins were isolated and shown to be homologous to plant defensins previously characterised from radish seeds and γ‐thionins from Poaceae seeds, and can be divided into two classes based on the spectrum of their antimicriobial activity and the morphological distortions they induce on fungi.
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Permeabilization of fungal membranes by plant defensins inhibits fungal growth.

Karin Thevissen, +2 more
- 01 Dec 1999 - 
TL;DR: It is thought that cation-resistant permeabilization is binding site mediated and linked to the primary cause of fungal growth inhibition induced by plant defensins.
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Defensins from Insects and Plants Interact with Fungal Glucosylceramides

Karin Thevissen, +9 more
- 06 Feb 2004 - 
TL;DR: Structurally homologous anti-fungal peptides present in species from different eukaryotic kingdoms interact with the same target in the fungal plasma membrane, namely glucosylceramides, and as such support the hypothesis that defensins from plants and insects have evolved from a single precursor.