Papaya (Carica papaya) lysozyme is a member of the family 19 (basic, class II) chitinases

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 819-821

  Subroto, Toto ^a   Sufiati, Siti ^a   Beintema, Jaap J ^b  

^a PADJADJARAN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chitinase; Lysozyme; Papaya; Sequence homology

Indexed keywords

CARICA PAPAYA EXTRACT; CHITINASE; GLYCOSIDASE; LATEX; LYSOZYME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY;

CARICA PAPAYA;

EID: 0033280613     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00000075     Document Type: Article

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