Taraxalisin - a serine proteinase from dandelion Taraxacum officinale Webb s.l
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A new subtilisin-like proteinase from roots of the dandelion Taraxacum officinale Webb S. L.
A serine proteinase from roots of Taraxacum officinale Webb S. L. was isolated by affinity chromatography and gel-filtration on Superose 6R using FPLC. The enzyme is a 67-kD glycoprotein containing 54% carbohydrate which we have named taraxalisin. The substrate specificity of taraxalisin toward synthetic peptides and oxidized insulin B-chain is comparable with that of cucumisin from Cucumis mel...
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عنوان ژورنال: FEBS Letters
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0014-5793
DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)01243-5