Publication Date:
1992-08-10
Description:
The fungicidal type I chitinases contribute to the defense response of plants against pathogens. Two tobacco chitinases represent a different class of hydroxyproline-containing proteins. Hydroxyproline-rich proteins are predominantly extracellular, structural glycoproteins proteins that lack enzymatic activity and contain many hydroxyproline residues. In contrast, type I chitinases are vacuolar enzymes. They are not glycosylated and contain a small number of hydroxyproline residues restricted to a single, short peptide sequence.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sticher, L -- Hofsteenge, J -- Milani, A -- Neuhaus, J M -- Meins, F Jr -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Jul 31;257(5070):655-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Friedrich Miescher-Institut, Basel, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1496378" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Chitinase/*chemistry/metabolism
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Glycosylation
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Hydroxylation
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Hydroxyproline/*analysis
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Molecular Weight
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*Plants, Toxic
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Protein Conformation
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Tobacco/*enzymology/ultrastructure
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Vacuoles/*enzymology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
