Citation
García Olmedo, Francisco and Rodriguez Palenzuela, Pablo and Hernandez Lucas, Carlos and Ponz Ascaso, Fernando and Maraña, Carmen and Carmona Quiles, Maria Jose and Lopez Fando, J.J. and Fernandez, Jose A. and Carbonero Zalduegui, Pilar
(1989).
The thionins: a protein family that includes purothionins, viscotoxins and crambins.
In:
"Oxford Surveys of Plant Molecular and Cell Biology".
Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 31-60.
Abstract
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).
