Purification and properties of an aspartic protease from potato tuber that is inhibited by a basic chitinase

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 164-169

  Guevara, María G ^a   Oliva, Claudia R ^a   Machinandiarena, Milagros ^a   Daleo, Gustavo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CHITINASE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; SDS POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0032856481     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1999.106203.x     Document Type: Article

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