Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 2
P
ROTEINS AND
E
NZYMES
OF THE
P
EA
P
ISUM SATIVUM
Tzi Bun Ng
*
and Charlene Cheuk Wing Ng
School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
A
BSTRACT
The pea
Pisum sativum
produces a diversity of enzymes and proteins.
They include alpha-galactosidases, beta-galactosidase, insoluble acid
invertase, germin-like protein with superoxide dismutase activity,
glutathione reductase, aminoaldehyde dehydrogenase, NADP+-linked
isocitrate dehydrogenase,
p-aminobenzoylglutamate hydrolase,
phospholipase C delta isoforms, cytoplasmic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase,
raffinose synthase, beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein synthase III,
caspases, DNA helicase 47, DNA helicase 45, chromatin-associated
histone binding protein, beta-1,3-glucanase, symbiosis-related chitinases,
Bowman-Birk protease inhibitors, angiotensin converting enzyme
inhibitory peptide, antifungal proteins, C-6 oxidases, short-chain alcohol
dehydrogenase-like protein, fatty acid alpha-dioxygenase, gibberellin
dioxygenases, carbonic anhydrase, photosystem II proteins with carbonic
anhydrase activity, C1 subgroup mitogen-activated protein kinase,
