Characterization of a structurally and functionally diverged acyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase from milkweed seed

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1105-1110

  Cahoon, Edgar B ^a   Coughlan, Sean J ^b   Shanklin, John ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Asclepias syriaca; fatty acid desaturase

Indexed keywords

9 TETRADECENOIC ACID; 9-TETRADECENOIC ACID; ACYL (ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN)DESATURASE; ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; ACYL-(ACYL-CARRIER-PROTEIN)DESATURASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PALMITOLEIC ACID; PLANT DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT SEED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031128388     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005821007291     Document Type: Article

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