Description : (q06445|cyti_vigun : 87.4) Cysteine proteinase inhibitor (Cystatin) - Vigna unguiculata (Cowpea) & (at2g40880 : 86.3) Encodes a protein with cysteine proteinase inhibitor activity. Overexpression increases tolerance to abiotic stressors (i.e.salt,osmitic, cold stress).; cystatin A (CYSA); FUNCTIONS IN: cysteine-type endopeptidase inhibitor activity; INVOLVED IN: response to abiotic stimulus; LOCATED IN: endomembrane system; EXPRESSED IN: 24 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Proteinase inhibitor I25, cystatin, conserved site (InterPro:IPR018073), Proteinase inhibitor I25, cystatin (InterPro:IPR000010), Proteinase inhibitor I25, cystatin, conserved region (InterPro:IPR020381); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: cystatin B (TAIR:AT3G12490.2); Has 756 Blast hits to 733 proteins in 101 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 2; Metazoa - 32; Fungi - 0; Plants - 716; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 6 (source: NCBI BLink). & (reliability: 172.6) & (original description: no original description)
Condition specificity: 6 h after dark (SPM: 0.47, entropy: 2.58, tau: 0.16)