Overexpression, purification and biochemical characterization of the wound-induced leucine aminopeptidase of tomato

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 726-735

  Yong Qiang, Gu ^a,b   Holzer, Frances M ^b   Walling, Linda L ^b  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminopeptidases; Defense response; Exopeptidases; Proteolysis; Wounding

Indexed keywords

AMASTATIN; BESTATIN; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CELL INCLUSION; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TOMATO; WOUND;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HEAT; KINETICS; LEUCINE; LEUCYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDES; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 0033179180     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00548.x     Document Type: Article

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