Isolation and analysis of cdna encoding a precursor of canavalia ensiformis asparaginyl endopeptidase (legumain)

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 541-546

  Takeda, Osamu ^a   Miura, Yukiko ^a   Mitta, Masanori ^a   Matsushita, Hideyuki ^b   Kato, Ikunoshin ^a   Abe, Yukichi ^b   Yokosawa, Hideyoshi ^b   Ishii, Shin Ichi ^b  

^a TAKARA SHUZO CO LTD   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asparaginyl endopeptidase; CDNA; Cysteine proteinase; Jack bean legumain; Posttranslational proteolysis

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; CLOSTRIPAIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME PRECURSOR; ISOENZYME; PAPAIN; PROTEINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BEAN; DATA BASE; LEGUME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME PRECURSORS; FABACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0027990302     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a124559     Document Type: Article

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