Purification and structural analysis of an abundant thaumatin-like protein from ripe banana fruit

Planta

Volumn 211, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 791-799

  Barre, Annick ^a   Peumans, Willy J ^b   Menu Bouaouiche, Laurence ^a   Van Damme, Els J M ^b   May, Gregory D ^c   Fernandez Herrera, Arais ^b   Van Leuven, Fred ^b   Rougé, Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fruit (protein); Musa (banana, plantain); Pathogenesis related protein; Protein structure; Thaumatin like protein

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRUIT; GLUCAN GLUCOSIDASE; METHYL JASMONATE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIPENING; THAUMATIN LIKE PROTEIN;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; FUNGI; MUSA; MUSA ACUMINATA; MUSA X PARADISIACA; PLANTAGO;

EID: 0033651713     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250000354     Document Type: Review

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