Lunasin in cereal seeds: What is the origin?

ABSTRACT: Lunasin is a peptide from soybean seeds which has been demonstrated to have anticancer properties. It has also been reported in cereal seeds: wheat, rye, barley and Triticale. However, extensive searches of transcriptome and DNA sequence databases for wheat and other cereals have failed to identify sequences encoding either the lunasin peptide or a precursor protein. This raises the question of the origin of the lunasin reported in cereal grain.

SUBMITTER: Mitchell RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4010285 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature