Lunasin in cereal seeds: What is the origin?
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چکیده
Lunasin is a peptide from soybean seeds which has been demonstrated to have anticancer properties. It has also been reported in cereal seeds: wheat, rye, barley and Triticale. However, extensive searches of transcriptome and DNA sequence databases for wheat and other cereals have failed to identify sequences encoding either the lunasin peptide or a precursor protein. This raises the question of the origin of the lunasin reported in cereal grain.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 57 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013