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Expression, purification and antimicrobial activity of puroindoline A protein and its mutants.
Amino acids - 1 Oct 2012
Miao Yingjie, Chen Ling, Wang Cheng, Wang Yajuan, Zheng Qian, Gao Chunbao, Yang Guangxiao, He Guangyuan
Abstract excerpt
Wheat puroindoline proteins, PINA and PINB, play key roles in determining wheat grain hardness as well as in defending the plant against pathogens. PINA has much greater membrane-binding property and antimicrobial activity because it contains more tryptophan residues in the unique tryptophan-rich domain (TRD). In order to obtain proteins with higher antimicrobial activity, mutants of PINA containing two or three...
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