Molecular cloning, functional expression, and mutagenesis of cDNA encoding a cysteine proteinase inhibitor from sunflower seeds

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 911-916

  Doi Kawano, Keiko ^a   Kouzuma, Yoshiaki ^a   Yamasaki, Nobuyuki ^a   Kimura, Makoto ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Cysteine proteinase; Overexpression; Phytocystatin; Sunflower

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BASIC PROTEIN; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN H; CATHEPSIN L; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTATIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; GLYCINE; PAPAIN; POLYPEPTIDE; SEPHAROSE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL FILTRATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT SEED; SUNFLOWER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELIANTHUS; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0031759357     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022207     Document Type: Article

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