cDNA cloning, substrate specificity and expression study of tobacco caffeoyl-CoA 3-O-methyltransferase, a lignin biosynthetic enzyme

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 427-437

  Martz, Françoise ^a   Maury, Stéphane ^a   Pinçon, Gaëlle ^a   Legrand, Michel ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Coenzyme A esters; Lignin biosynthesis; O methyltransferase; Phenylpropanoids; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

CAFFEOYL COA O METHYLTRANSFERASE; CAFFEOYL-COA O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIGNIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATABASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LIGNIN; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, TOXIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 0032005195     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005969825070     Document Type: Article

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