Purification and crystallization of coconut globulin cocosin from Cocos nucifera

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1601, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 121-122

  Balasundaresan, D ^a   Sugadev, R ^a   Ponnuswamy, M N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Coconut endosperm; Cocosin; Crystallization; Purification; Space group R3; Storage protein

Indexed keywords

COCOSIN; MACROGOL 3350; MACROGOL 4000; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; GLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; COCONUT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; ENDOSPERM; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY;

COCOS NUCIFERA;

COCOS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GLOBULINS; PLANT PROTEINS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0037137131     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1570-9639(02)00401-6     Document Type: Article

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