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Lunasin in wheat: a chemical and molecular study on its presence or absence.
Food chemistry - 15 May 2014
Dinelli Giovanni, Bregola Valeria, Bosi Sara, Fiori Jessica, Gotti Roberto, Simonetti Emanuela, Trozzi Caterina, Leoncini Emanuela, Prata Cecilia, Massaccesi Luca, Malaguti Marco, Quinn Robert, Hrelia Silvana
Abstract excerpt
Lunasin is a peptide whose anticancer properties are widely reported. Originally isolated from soybean seeds, lunasin was also found in cereal (wheat, rye, barley and Triticale), Solanum and amaranthus seeds. However, it was recently reported that searches of transcript and DNA sequence databases for wheat and other cereals failed to identify sequences with similarity to those encoding the lunasin peptide in soy....
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