Bauhinia variegata var. variegata trypsin inhibitor: From isolation to potential medicinal applications

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 396, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 806-811

  Fang, Evandro Fei ^a   Wong, Jack Ho ^a   Bah, Clara Shui Fern ^b   Lin, Peng ^a   Tsao, Sai Wah ^c   Ng, Tzi Bun ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bauhinia variegata var. variegata; Cytokines; HIV; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Proteinase inhibitors

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYTOKINE; KUNITZ TYPE TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SERINE; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BAUHINIA; BAUHINIA VARIEGATA; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BAUHINIA; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINES; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS;

BAUHINIA; BAUHINIA VARIEGATA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 77953288202     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.04.140     Document Type: Article

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