It is a storage protein found in legumes such as the pea or lentil[1][2][3] that protects plants from fungi and microorganism.
Sucrose binding, antifungal capabilities, and oxidative stress are a few of the globulin's functions.
Vicilin peptides produced by digestion using trypsin or chymotrypsin offer anti-hypersensitive properties[citation needed].
[9] Vicilin is made up of one α subunit, a single glycerol, and a phosphate ion.
The copper ligand is coupled by a trigonal planar structure generated by cysteine's sulfur.