Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of a cDNA encoding a cysteine proteinase inhibitor from Sorghum bicolor seedlings

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 251, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 499-502

  Li, Ziyu ^a   Sommer, Andrea ^a   Dingermann, Theo ^a   Noe, Christian R ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cystatin; Cysteine proteinase inhibitor (CPI); Seedling; Solghum bicolor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTATIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; PAPAIN; PLANT DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SORGHUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAPAIN; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SORGHUM BICOLOR;

EID: 0030059119     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050194     Document Type: Article

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