The major elderberry (Sambucus nigra) fruit protein is a lectin derived from a truncated type 2 ribosome-inactivating protein

Plant Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1251-1260

  Van Damme, Els J M ^a   Roy, Soma ^a   Barre, Annick ^b   Rougé, Pierre ^b   Van Leuven, Fred ^a   Peumans, Willy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOSIDASE; LECTIN; PLANT LECTIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEIN TYPE 2, SAMBUCUS; RIBOSOME-INACTIVATING PROTEIN TYPE 2, SAMBUCUS; RICIN; SAMBUCUS NIGRA LECTINS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; GENE LIBRARY; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT STEM; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FRUIT; GENE LIBRARY; INTRONS; LECTINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PLANT LECTINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STEMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RICIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

SAMBUCUS; SAMBUCUS NIGRA;

EID: 0031436399     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1997.12061251.x     Document Type: Article

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