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Purification and characterization of seed storage proteins from Momordica charantia

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2 storage proteins have been isolated and purified from seeds of Momordica charantia. These proteins appear to consist of 4 subunits of 5500 daltons and they contain a very high concentration of glutamic acid plus glutamine and arginine.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Fifth Avenue and 100th Street, 10029, New York, N. Y., USA

    S. S. -L. Li

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Acknowledgment. The author wishes to thank Ms M. Diane Forde for skillful assistance, Drs J. Michael Kehoe and Thomas T.-S. Lin for discussion and reading the manuscript. This investigation was supported by NIH grants CA18621 and AI09810.

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Li, S.S.L. Purification and characterization of seed storage proteins from Momordica charantia. Experientia 33, 895–896 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01951267

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