Substrate specificity and molecular modelling of aspartic proteinases (Cyprosins) from flowers of Cynara cardunculus subsp. flavescens cv. cardoon

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 436, Issue , 1998, Pages 473-479

  Cordeiro, M ^a   Lowther, T ^b   Dunn, B M ^b   Guruprasad, K ^c   Blundell, T ^c   Pais, M S ^d   Brodelius, P E ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CYNARA; CYNARA CARDUNCULUS; CYNARA CARDUNCULUS SUBSP. FLAVESCENS;

EID: 0031944728     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5373-1_65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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