Scalable purification and characterization of the anticancer lunasin peptide from soybean.

Lunasin is a peptide derived from the soybean 2S albumin seed protein that has both anticancer and anti-inflammatory activities. Large-scale animal studies and human clinical trials to determine the efficacy of lunasin in vivo have been hampered by the cost of synthetic lunasin and the lack of a met...

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Main Authors: Lauren E Seber, Brian W Barnett, Elizabeth J McConnell, Steven D Hume, Jian Cai, Kati Boles, Keith R Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22514740/?tool=EBI