Isolation and characterization of an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA encoding a Δ7-sterol-C-5-desaturase by functional complementation of a defective yeast mutant

Plant Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 391-398

  Gachotte, Daniel ^a   Husselstein, Tania ^a   Bard, Martin ^b   Lacroute, François ^c   Benveniste, Pierre ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ARABIDOPSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PLANT DNA; STEROL DELTA 5 DESATURASE; STEROL DELTA-5 DESATURASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030111416     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.09030391.x     Document Type: Article

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