Characterization of Urtica dioica agglutinin isolectins and the encoding gene family

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 335-347

  Does, Mirjam P ^a   Ng, David K ^a   Dekker, Henk L ^b   Peumans, Willy J ^c   Houterman, Petra M ^a   Van Damme, Els J M ^c   Cornelissen, Ben J C ^a  

^a Institute for Molecular Cell Biology   (Netherlands)

^b EC Slater Institute   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gene family; Isolectin; Stinging nettle; UDA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; ISOLECTIN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; URTICA DIOICA AGGLUTININ;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERMS; BASE SEQUENCE; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LECTINS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SUPERANTIGENS;

URTICA DIOICA; URTICACEAE;

EID: 0032999167     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006134932290     Document Type: Article

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