Cloning and characterisation of a gene encoding an antiviral protein from Clerodendrum aculeatum L.

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 745-751

  Kumar, Dhirendra ^a   Verma, Hridya N ^a   Tuteja, Narendra ^a   Tewari, Krishna K ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cDNA; Clerodendrum aculeatum systemic resistance inducing protein; plant virus inhibitor; ribosome inactivating proteins

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CA SRI PROTEIN, CLERODENDRUM ACULEATUM; CA-SRI PROTEIN, CLERODENDRUM ACULEATUM; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT VIRUS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENES, PLANT; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT VIRUSES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CLERODENDRUM ACULEATUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0031104637     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005716103632     Document Type: Article

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