Autoproteolytic processing of aspartic proteinase from sunflower seeds

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 702-705

  Park, Hyekyeong ^a   Kusakabe, Isao ^a   Sakakibara, Yoshikiyo ^b   Kobayashi, Hideyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspartic proteinase; Autoproteolytic processing; Plant specific region; Sunflower seed

Indexed keywords

HELIANTHUS;

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CATHEPSIN; PHYTEPSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT SEED; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SUNFLOWER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CATHEPSINS; HELIANTHUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEEDS;

EID: 0035293252     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.65.702     Document Type: Article

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