Purification, characterization, and cDNA cloning of a Bowman-Birk type trypsin inhibitor from Apios americana medikus tubers

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 171-178

  Zhang, Youzuo ^a   Kouzuma, Yoshiaki ^a   Miyaji, Takayuki ^a   Yonekura, Masami ^a  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apios americana; cDNA cloning; Purification; Trypsin inhibitor

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; MOLECULAR MASS; NUCLEOTIDES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

APIOS AMERICANA; CDNA CLONING; INHIBITORY ACTIVITY; PH STABILITY; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

ENZYME INHIBITION;

BOWMAN BIRK INHIBITOR; PRIMER DNA; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DRUG STABILITY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGUME; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG STABILITY; FABACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR, BOWMAN-BIRK SOYBEAN;

APIOS; APIOS AMERICANA;

EID: 38549142512     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.70531     Document Type: Article

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