Items for "cystine-knot microproteins"

Trypsin inhibition by macrocyclic and open-chain variants of the squash inhibitor MCoTI-II

MCoTI-I and MCoTI-II from the seeds of Momordica cochinchinensis are inhibitors of trypsin-like proteases and the only known members of the large family of squash inhibitors that are cyclic and contain an additional loop connecting the amino- and the carboxy-terminus...

Keywords: cyclic squash inhibitors, cystine-knot microproteins, nucleic amino acids, trypsin inhibition