The protein composition of the digestive fluid from the venus flytrap sheds light on prey digestion mechanisms

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1306-1319

  Schulze, Waltraud X ^a   Sanggaard, Kristian W ^b   Kreuzer, Ines ^c   Knudsen, Anders D ^b   Bemm, Felix ^c   Thøgersen, Ida B ^b   Bräutigam, Andrea ^d   Thomsen, Line R ^b   Schliesky, Simon ^d   Dyrlund, Thomas F ^b   Escalante Perez, Maria ^c   Becker, Dirk ^c   Schultz, Jörg ^c   Karring, Henrik ^e   Weber, Andreas ^d   Højrup, Peter ^e   Hedrich, Rainer ^c,f   Enghild, Jan J ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A GLUCANASE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CHITINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOSIDASE; NUCLEASE; PEROXIDASE; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CARNIVOROUS PLANT; DIGESTION; DIGESTIVE FLUID; DIONAEA MUSCIPULA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSERACEAE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT EXUDATES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEOLYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; DIONAEA; DIONAEA MUSCIPULA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84869208955     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M112.021006     Document Type: Article

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