Functional activity of sporamin from sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas lam.): A tuber storage protein with trypsin inhibitory activity

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 565-570

  Yeh, Kai Wun ^a   Chen, Jen Chih ^a   Lin, Mei In ^a   Chen, Yih Ming ^a   Lin, Chu Yung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

sporamin; storage protein; trypsin inhibitor (TI); wound response

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; SOYBEAN TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; SPORAMIN PROTEIN, IPOMOEA BATATAS; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; VEGETABLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR, KUNITZ SOYBEAN; TRYPSIN INHIBITORS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 0031081795     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005764702510     Document Type: Article

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