UDP-glucose:sterol glucosyltransferase: Cloning and functional expression in Escherichia coli

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 597-603

  Warnecke, Dirk C ^a   Baltrusch, Martina ^a   Buck, Friedrich ^a   Wolter, Frank P ^a   Heinz, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Avena sativa; Cholesterol; Membrane lipid; Steryl glucoside

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; STEROL; STEROL 3 BETA GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; STEROL 3-BETA-GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; AVENA SATIVA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STEROLS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; AVENA SATIVA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031282642     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005806119807     Document Type: Article

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