title: Structural similarity in Bowman-Birk type protease inhibitors based on hydrophobicity.
abstract: The degree of similarity in the three-dimensional structures of thirteen legume Bowman-Birk type protease inhibitors has been examined on the basis of the patterns of hydrophobicity found in their amino acid sequences, following the procedure described by Sweet & Eisenberg (1983). In the group of such double-headed protease inhibitors two sub-groups are distinguished presenting high structural similarity among their respective members and low similarity between them. Phylogenetic trees have been constructed from hydrophobicity difference and minimum mutational distance matrices, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biologia Celular, Universidade de Brasília, DF.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ventura
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011480:Protease Inhibitors / Q000032:analysis*; D014358:Trypsin Inhibitor, Bowman-Birk Soybean / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D011480:Protease Inhibitors; D014358:Trypsin Inhibitor, Bowman-Birk Soybean