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SUBMITTER: Buonanno M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5818769 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 20171205 3
Prosystemin, originally isolated from Lycopersicon esculentum, is a tomato pro-hormone of 200 aminoacid residues which releases a bioactive peptide of 18 aminoacids called Systemin. This signaling peptide is involved in the activation of defense genes in solanaceous plants in response to herbivore feeding damage. Using biochemical, biophysical and bioinformatics approaches we characterized Prosystemin, showing that it is an intrinsically disordered protein possessing a few secondary structure el ...[more]