Selected Publications

Kervinen J, Kontturi M, Mikola J (1990) Changes on the proteinase composition of barley leaves during senescence in field conditions. Cereal Res. Commun. 18: 191-197.

Runeberg-Roos, P, Törmäkangas, K, Östman, A (1991) Primary structure of a barley-grain aspartic proteinase. A plant aspartic proteinase resembling mammalian cathepsin D. Eur. J. Biochem. 202: 1021-1027.

Sarkkinen P, Kalkkinen N, Tilgmann C, Siuro J, Kervinen J, Mikola L (1992) Aspartic proteinase from barley grains is related to mammalian lysosomal cathepsin D. Planta 186: 317-323.

Törmäkangas K, Runeberg-Roos P, Östman A, Tilgmann C, Sarkkinen P, Kervinen J, Mikola L, Kalkkinen N (1992) Aspartic proteinase from barley seeds is related to cathepsin D. In: "Structure and function of the Aspartic proteinases: Genetics, Structure, Mechanisms" ed. B.M. Dunn, Plenum Press, p. 355-359.

Kervinen J, Sarkkinen P, Kalkkinen N, Mikola L, Saarma M (1993) Hydrolytic specificity of the barley grain aspartic proteinase. Phytochemistry 32: 799-803.

Runeberg-Roos P, Kervinen J, Kovaleva V, Raikhel N.V, Gal S (1994) The aspartic proteinase of barley is a vacuolar enzyme that processes probarley lectin in vitro. Plant Physiol. 105: 321-329.

Guruprasad K, Törmäkangas K, Kervinen J, Blundell T (1994) Comparative modelling of barley-grain aspartic proteinase: a structural rationale for observed hydrolytic specificity. FEBS Lett. 352: 131-136.

Törmäkangas K, Kervinen J, Östman A, Teeri, T (1994) Tissue specific localization of aspartic proteinase in developing and germinating barley grains. Planta 195: 116-125

Kervinen J, Törmäkangas K, Runeberg-Roos P, Guruprasad K, Blundell T, Teeri T (1995) Structure and possible function of aspartic proteinases in barley and other plants (review on plant aspartic proteinases). In "Aspartic proteinases: Structure, Function, Biology, and Biomedical Implications", ed K. Takahashi. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 241-254.

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