A higher-plant type ζ-carotene desaturase in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 725-732

  Breitenbach, Jürgen ^a   Fernández González, Blanca ^b   Vioque, Agustín ^b   Sandmann, Gerhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carotene desaturase gene; J852; Lycopene; Neurosporene; Phylogeny; Synechocystis PCC6803

Indexed keywords

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME MECHANISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANABAENA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0031967621     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005997405431     Document Type: Article

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