Cloning of Sucrose:Sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase from onion and synthesis of structurally defined fructan molecules from sucrose

Plant Physiology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1507-1513

  Vijn, Irma ^a   Van Dijken, Anja ^a   Lüscher, Marcel ^b   Bos, Antoine ^a   Smeets, Edward ^a   Weisbeek, Peter ^a   Wiemken, Andres ^b   Smeekens, Sjef ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FRUCTAN; GLYCOSIDASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; INULOSUCRASE; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ONION; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PROTOPLAST; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FRUCTANS; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONIONS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROTOPLASTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOBACCO;

EID: 0032133364     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.117.4.1507     Document Type: Article

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