Título de la tesis:
Thionins
Autor/es:
García Olmedo, Francisco
Tipo de documento:
Sección de Libro
Universidad:
E.T.S.I. Agrónomos (UPM)
Departamento:
Biotecnologia
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Fecha de la defensa:
1999-01-01
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Resumen: The general designation of thionins has been proposed for a family of homologous peptides that includes purothionins, which were first isolated from wheat seeds (Balls el #/., 1942) and their homologues from various taxa that have been named viscotoxins and crambins (see Garcia-Olmedo el al., 1989). The crystalline protein material obtained from lipid extracts of wheat endosperm was designated "purothionins" because of its high sulphur content (Balls el al., 1942). This material was found to have bactericidal and fungicidal properties (Stuart and Harris, 1942), to inhibit fermentation of wheat...
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