title: Dendrocin, a distinctive antifungal protein from bamboo shoots.
abstract: An antifungal protein, with a molecular weight of 20 kDa and an inhibitory action on mycelial growth in the fungi Fusarium oxysporum, Botrytis cincerea, and Mycosphaerella arachidicola, was isolated from fresh bamboo shoots. The protein, designated dendrocin, was unadsorbed on DEAE-cellulose and adsorbed on Affi-gel blue gel and CM-Sepharose. Dendrocin showed only limited similarity in N-terminal sequence to thaumatin-like proteins, unlike other thaumatin-like proteins which closely resemble each other. Its molecular weight was also lower than those of the previously reported thaumatin-like proteins. The protein was devoid of hemagglutinating and ribonuclease activities found in some antifungal proteins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, College of Biological Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China.
authors.forename: H X
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Ng
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D018520:Plant Shoots / Q000737:chemistry; D006109:Poaceae / Q000737:chemistry*; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D000935:Antifungal Agents; D010940:Plant Proteins; C476773:dendrocin protein, Dendrocalamus latiflora