Identification in lupin seed of a serine-endopeptidase activity cleaving between twin arginine pairs and causing limited proteolysis of seed storage proteins

Molecular Plant

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1011-1019

  Magni, Chiara ^a   Sessa, Fabio ^a   Tedeschi, Gabriella ^a   Negri, Armando ^a   Scarafoni, Alessio ^a   Consonni, Alessandro ^a   Duranti, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

leguminous seeds; Lupinus albus; N terminal amino acid sequence analysis; proteolysis; proteolytic conversion; storage proteins; twin arginine residues

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LUPINUS ALBUS;

EID: 84866384710     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssr116     Document Type: Article

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