Aspartic proteinase genes in the brassicaceae Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica napus

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 187-192

  D'Hondt, Kathleen ^a,b,e   Stack, Sylvia ^c   Gutteridge, Steve ^c   Vandekerckhove, Joel ^b   Krebbers, Enno ^a,c   Gal, Susannah ^d  

^a Bayer Cropscience Belgium   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^d BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aspartic proteinase; gene isolation, intron exon arrangement; protein processing; pulmonary surfactant associated protein; saposin C

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRASSICA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BRASSICA; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICACEAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031040431     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005794917200     Document Type: Article

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