Nucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase from Euphorbia characias latex: Purification and characterization

Plant Science

Volumn 177, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 636-642

  Pintus, Francesca ^a   Spanò, Delia ^a   Bellelli, Andrea ^b   Angelucci, Francesco ^b   Floris, Giovanni ^a   Medda, Rosaria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcium ions; Euphorbia characias; Magnesium ions; Metallo proteins; Nucleotide pyrophosphatase phosphodiesterase

Indexed keywords

EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA CHARACIAS;

EID: 70349783589     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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