Metabolic engineering of glycine betaine synthesis: plant betaine aldehyde dehydrogenases lacking typical transit peptides are targeted to tobacco chloroplasts where they confer betaine aldehyde resistance

Planta

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 155-162

  Rathinasabapathi, Bala ^a   McCue, Kent F ^b   Gage, Douglas A ^c   Hanson, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase; Chloroplast targeting; Glycine betaine; Nicotiana (transgenic); Selectable marker

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BETAINE; BETAINE ALDEHYDE; BETAINE ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; VEGETABLE;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETAINE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DRUG RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TOBACCO; VEGETABLES;

EID: 0027962805     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00192524     Document Type: Article

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