A novel defensin from the lentil Lens culinaris seeds

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 371, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 860-865

  Finkina, Ekaterina I ^a   Shramova, Elena I ^a   Tagaev, Andrey A ^a   Ovchinnikova, Tatiana V ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Antifungal activity; Defensin; Germinated seeds; Lens culinaris; Lentil; Molecular cloning; Primary structure

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM SULFATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; DEFENSIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL FILTRATION; GERMINATION; LENTIL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PLANT RESIDUE; PLANT SEED; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEFENSINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; LENS PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPSIN;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; LENS CULINARIS;

EID: 44149113488     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.04.161     Document Type: Article

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