Purification of chitinolytic protein from rehmannia glutinosa showing n-terminal amino acid sequence similarity to thaumatin-like proteins

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1138-1140

  Pan, Cheol Ho ^a   Lee, Eun A ^a   Chae, Young Am ^a   Kim, Su Il ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chitinolytic protein; Pathogenesis related protein; Rehmannia glutinosa; Thaumatin like protein

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM SULFATE; CHITIN; P1 PROTEIN, REHMANNIA GLUTINOSA; SWEETENING AGENT; THAUMATIN PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CHITIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SOLANACEAE; SWEETENING AGENTS;

EID: 0033141330     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.1138     Document Type: Article

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