Amino acid sequence and some properties of phytolacain R, a cysteine protease from full-growth fruits of pokeweed, Phytolacca americana

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 26-33

  Yonezawa, Hiroo ^a   Uchikoba, Tetsuya ^a   Arima, Kazunari ^a   Shimada, Masayuki ^a   Kaneda, Makoto ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Cysteine protease; Endopeptidase; Phytolacca americana; Pokeweed

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDIN; ALANINE; BRINASE; BROMELAIN; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CYANOGEN BROMIDE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; METHIONINE; PAPAIN; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; TRYPSIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; VALINE;

ACHROMOBACTER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHORESIS; FRUIT; HYDROPHOBICITY; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POKEWEED; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ACHROMOBACTER; PHYTOLACCA AMERICANA; PHYTOLACCACEAE;

EID: 0032820179     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022431     Document Type: Article

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