Sugarcane phytocystatins: Identification, classification and expression pattern analysis

The cystatins are tightly binding, but reversible, inhibitors of cysteine proteinases, which constitute a superfamily of evolutionary related proteins. They have been subdivided into three families: the cystatin family which contain two disulfide bonds, the stefin family which lack disulfide bonds,...

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Main Authors: Emerson Moreira Reis, Rogério Margis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2001-12-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572001000100038