The terminal O-acetyltransferase involved in vindoline biosynthesis defines a new class of proteins responsible for coenzyme A-dependent acyl transfer

Plant Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 703-713

  St Pierre, Benoit ^a   Laflamme, Pierre ^a   Alarco, Anne Marie ^a,b   De Luca, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONE; COENZYME A; DIHYDROLIPOYL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HETERODIMER; MESSENGER RNA; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENETICS; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; RIPENING; SEED DEVELOPMENT; VINDOLINE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COENZYME A; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 0032104554     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00174.x     Document Type: Article

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