Discovery of cyclotides in the Fabaceae plant family provides new insights into the cyclization, evolution, and distribution of circular proteins

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 345-355

  Poth, Aaron G ^a,b   Colgrave, Michelle L ^b   Philip, Reynold ^c   Kerenga, Bomai ^c   Daly, Norelle L ^a   Anderson, Marilyn A ^d   Craik, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CTER A PROTEIN; CTER B PROTEIN; CTER C PROTEIN; CTER D PROTEIN; CTER E PROTEIN; CTER F PROTEIN; CTER G PROTEIN; CTER H PROTEIN; CTER I PROTEIN; CTER J PROTEIN; CTER K PROTEIN; CTER L PROTEIN; CYCLOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLITORIA TERNATEA; CYCLIZATION; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; LEGUME; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN VARIANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYCLOTIDES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FABACEAE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEEDS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

CENTROSEMA; CLITORIA TERNATEA; CUCURBITACEAE; FABACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; OLDENLANDIA AFFINIS; RUBIACEAE; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 79954569541     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb100388j     Document Type: Article

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