Disulfide-bound proteolytic fragments of gastric mucin are 100- and 140-kDa proteins

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 270, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 722-727

  Minkiewicz Radziejewska, Iwona ^a   Gindzieński, Andrzej ^a   Zwierz, Krzysztof ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Disulfide depolymerization; Gastric mucin; Proteolysis

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; IODOACETAMIDE; SODIUM AZIDE; STOMACH MUCIN;

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SWINE;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0343090858     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2497     Document Type: Article

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