Two isoforms of glutamate decarboxylase in Arabidopsis are regulated by calcium/calmodulin and differ in organ distribution

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 967-975

  Zik, Moriyah ^a   Arazi, Tzahi ^a   Snedden, Wayne A ^a,b   Fromm, Hillel ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baculovirus; Calcium; Calmodulin; GABA ( aminobutyric acid); Sf9 insect cells

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYST ACTIVITY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE PROBE; GENE PRODUCT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032146950     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006047623263     Document Type: Article

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