title: The thionins: a protein family that includes purothionins, viscotoxins and crambins
creator: García Olmedo, Francisco
creator: Rodriguez Palenzuela, Pablo
creator: Hernandez Lucas, Carlos
creator: Ponz Ascaso, Fernando
creator: Maraña, Carmen
creator: Carmona Quiles, Maria Jose
creator: Lopez Fando, J.J.
creator: Fernandez, Jose A.
creator: Carbonero Zalduegui, Pilar
subject: Biology
description: Almost half a century ago, a crystalline protein material was obtained from lipid extracts of wheat endosperm and designated "purothionin" (Trvpwo, wheat; 9 e i w v , sulphur) on account of its high sulphur content (Balls et al., 1942a,b). This material, which was thought to be the oxidized form of a powerful oxidation-reduction system, was found to have baetericidal and fungicidal properties (Stuart and Harris, 1942), to inhibit fermentation of wheat mashes (Balls and Harris, 1944), and to be toxic to laboratory animáis (Coulson et al., 1942).
publisher: E.T.S.I. Agrónomos (UPM)
rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
date: 1989
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: Book Section
source: The thionins: a protein family that includes purothionins, viscotoxins and crambins | En: Oxford Surveys of Plant Molecular and Cell Biology | pag. 31-60 | Oxford University Press | 1989
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: eng
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
identifier: http://oa.upm.es/6055/