Pearl millet cysteine protease inhibitor. Evidence for the presence of two distinct sites responsible for anti-fungal and anti-feedent activities

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 556-563

  Joshi, Bimba N ^a   Sainani, Mohini N ^a   Bastawade, Kulbhushan B ^a   Deshpande, Vasanti V ^a   Gupta, Vidya S ^a   Ranjekar, Prabhakar K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Anti feedent; Anti fungal; Cysteine protease inhibitor; Pearl millet

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTIDINE; PAPAIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; ZINC;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHODERMA REESEI;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHELATING AGENTS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DIETHYL PYROCARBONATE; ENZYME STABILITY; KINETICS; PANICUM; PAPAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHENYLGLYOXAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE; ZINC;

HYPOCREA JECORINA; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 0033570186     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00764.x     Document Type: Article

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