A determinant of substrate specificity predicted from the Acyl-Acyl carrier protein desaturase of developing cat's claw seed

Plant Physiology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 593-598

  Cahoon, Edgar B ^a,c   Shah, Salehuzzaman ^b,d   Shanklin, John ^a   Browse, John ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^d ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL (ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN)DESATURASE; ACYL-(ACYL-CARRIER-PROTEIN)DESATURASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; EUPHORBIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; PLANT SEED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EUPHORBIACEAE; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032091048     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.117.2.593     Document Type: Article

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