The squash aspartic proteinase inhibitor SQAPI is widely present in the cucurbitales, comprises a small multigene family, and is a member of the phytocystatin family

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 747-757

  Christeller, John T ^a   Farley, Peter C ^b   Marshall, Richelle K ^a   Anandan, Ananda ^a   Wright, Michele M ^a   Newcomb, Richard D ^a   Laing, William A ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Pepsin; Phloem; Protein modeling

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; CYSTATIN; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; ORYZACYSTATIN; PHYTOCYSTATIN; SQUASH PHLOEM EXUDATE EXPRESSED ASPARTIC PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; ENZYME BINDING; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENE DUPLICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SQUASH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CUCURBITACEAE; CYSTATINS; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS;

BEGONIACEAE; CORIARIACEAE; CORYNOCARPACEAE; CUCURBITA MAXIMA; CUCURBITACEAE; CUCURBITALES;

EID: 33845354985     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-005-0304-z     Document Type: Article

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