Cleavage specificity of cucumisin, a serine protease, with synthetic substrates

Phytochemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 451-454

  Arima, Kazunari ^a   Yonezawa, Hiroo ^a   Uchikoba, Tetsuya ^a   Shimada, Masayuki ^a   Kaneda, Makoto ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cucumis melo; Cucurbitaceae; Melon Fruit; Serine protease; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARAGINE; CUCUMISIN; DIAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; DIPEPTIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SERINE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCUMBER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; FRUIT; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

CUCURBITACEAE; DIPEPTIDES; KINETICS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CUCUMIS; CUCUMIS MELO; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITACEAE; MELO;

EID: 0343517090     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9422(00)00157-6     Document Type: Article

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