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PLANT proteins which inhibit various animal, bacterial and fungal proteolytic enzymes, although apparently not ubiquitous in plants, are common in the storage organs of a large number of species. It is not clear whether the ability to form complexes with proteolytic enzymes is related to physiological phenomena in the intact plant, but this question has generated considerable interest and some speculation1.
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RYAN, C., HUISMAN, O. Chymotrypsin Inhibitor I from Potatoes : a Transient Protein Component in Leaves of Young Potato Plants. Nature 214, 1047–1049 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2141047a0
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