Maize glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase cDNA: A novel plant gene of detoxification

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 843-854

  Fliegmann, Judith ^a,b   Sandermann Jr , Heinrich ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol dehydrogenase; Enzyme evolution; Formaldehyde detoxification; Glutathione dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase; Heterologous expression

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FORMALDEHYDE; FORMALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE (GLUTATHIONE); GLUTATHIONE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FORMALDEHYDE; GENES, PLANT; GLUTATHIONE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031214706     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005872222490     Document Type: Article

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