%A Francisco Garc?a Olmedo
%A Pablo Rodriguez Palenzuela
%A Carlos Hernandez Lucas
%A Fernando Ponz Ascaso
%A Carmen Mara?a
%A Maria Jose Carmona Quiles
%A J.J. Lopez Fando
%A Jose A. Fernandez
%A Pilar Carbonero Zalduegui
%T The thionins: a protein family that includes purothionins, viscotoxins and crambins
%X 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 anim?is (Coulson et al., 1942).
%P 31-60
%B Oxford Surveys of Plant Molecular and Cell Biology
%V 6
%D 1989
%C UK
%I Oxford University Press
%L upm6055