Amino Acid Sequences of Kunitz-type Protease Inhibitors from the Sea Anemone Actinia equina

Fisheries Science

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 794-798

  Ishida, Masami ^a   Minagawa, Sonomi ^a   Miyauchi, Koji ^a,b   Shimakura, Kuniyoshi ^a   Nagashima, Yuji ^a   Shiomi, Kazuo ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actinia equina; Amino acid sequence; Kunitz type protease inhibitors; Sea anemone; Serine protease inhibitors

Indexed keywords

ACTINIA EQUINA; ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE;

EID: 0000856180     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2331/fishsci.63.794     Document Type: Article

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