Expression of de novo high-lysine α-helical coiled-coil proteins may significantly increase the accumulated levels of lysine in mature seeds of transgenic tobacco plants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-29

  Keeler, Sharon J ^a,b   Maloney, Cathy L ^a,c   Webber, Patricia Y ^a   Patterson, Carole ^a   Hirata, Lee T ^a,d   Falco, S Carl ^a   Rice, Janet A ^a  

^a NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c Millipore Inc   (United States)

^d ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

helical coiled coil; conglycinin; lysine; methionine; nutritional quality; phaseolin; seed storage proteins

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; PHASEOLIN PROTEIN, PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGUME; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FABACEAE; GENETIC VECTORS; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEEDS; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031149258     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005809900758     Document Type: Article

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