Cloning of a cDNA encoding a new ribosome-inactivating protein from Beta vulgaris vulgaris (mangold)

Gene

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 233-236

  Hornung, Ellen ^a   Wajant, Harald ^a   Jeske, Holger ^a   Mundry, Karl Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Betavulgin; Immune screening; Ricin; RNA N glycosidase; Trichosanthin

Indexed keywords

BETAVULGIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOSIDASE; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BETA VULGARIS; BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0029966423     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00802-0     Document Type: Article

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