Molecular cloning of the bark and seed lectins from the Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 523-536

  Van Damme, Els J M ^a   Barre, Annick ^b   Rougé, Pierre ^b   Peumans, Willy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

bark proteins; cDNA cloning; lectin; Sophora japonica

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GALNAC BINDING BARK LECTIN, SOPHORA JAPONICA; GALNAC-BINDING BARK LECTIN, SOPHORA JAPONICA; GLUCOSE; LECTIN; MANNOSE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; PLANT LECTIN; SJABMI LECTIN, SOPHORA JAPONICA; SJABMII LECTIN, SOPHORA JAPONICA; SJASG AGGLUTININ, SOPHORA JAPONICA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGUME; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOMENCLATURE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TREE;

ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE; AGGLUTININS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FABACEAE; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSE; LECTINS; MANNOSE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LECTINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TERMINOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 0031081446     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005781103418     Document Type: Article

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