Molecular characterization of tobacco sulfite reductase: Enzyme purification, gene cloning, and gene expression analysis

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 615-621

  Yonekura Sakakibara, Keiko ^a   Ashikari, Toshihiko ^a   Tanaka, Yoshikazu ^a   Kusumi, Taka Aki ^a   Hase, Toshiharu ^b  

^a SUNTORY LTD   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA and gene cloning; Gene expression; Nicotiana tabacum; Sulfite reductase; Sulfur assimilatory gene

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME PRECURSOR; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; SULFITE REDUCTASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; INTRON; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031684320     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022156     Document Type: Article

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