Isolation and analysis of a gene bbe1 encoding the berberine bridge enzyme from the California poppy Eschscholzia californica

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 473-478

  Hauschild, Kay ^a   Pauli, Hubert H ^a   Kutchan, Toni M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Benzophenanthridine; Papaveraceae; Species specific promoter

Indexed keywords

N DEMETHYLASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RETICULINE OXIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPAVER; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CALIFORNIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES, N-DEMETHYLATING; PAPAVER; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHSCHOLZIA CALIFORNICA; PAPAVER; PAPAVERACEAE; THALICTRUM;

EID: 0032005070     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005917808232     Document Type: Article

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