Improved metabolic action of a bacterial lysine decarboxylase gene in tobacco hairy root cultures by its fusion to a rbcS transit peptide coding sequence

Transgenic Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 193-201

  Herminghaus, S ^b   Tholl, D ^b   Rugenhagen C ^b   Fecker, L F ^b   Leuschner, C ^a   Berlin, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anabasine; Cadaverine; Lysine decarboxylase; Metabolic engineering; Nicotiana tabacum; Protein targeting; Rubisco transit peptide; Transformed root cultures

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

ANABASINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CADAVERINE; CARBOXYLYASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOSAIC VIRUS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANABASINE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CADAVERINE; CARBOXY-LYASES; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; KINETICS; MOSAIC VIRUSES; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; TOBACCO;

EID: 0030137988     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01969709     Document Type: Article

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