Atomic resolution structure of cucurmosin, a novel type 1 ribosome-inactivating protein from the sarcocarp of Cucurbita moschata

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-87

  Hou, Xiaomin ^a,b   Meehan, Edward J ^c   Xie, Jieming ^d   Huang, Mingdong ^a,b   Chen, Minghuang ^a,b   Chen, Liqing ^c  

^a FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cancer cells; Cucurbita moschata; Cytotoxicity; Ribosome inactivating protein; Sequence; Structure

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CUCURMOSIN; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSIDASE; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; TRICHOSANTHIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BETA CHAIN; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA ISOLATION; DRUG CONFORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SQUASH; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CUCURBITA; DNA, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CUCURBITA MOSCHATA; MURINAE;

EID: 51749083943     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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