Cloning and Characterization of a Tobacco cDNA Encoding Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Glutamate Decarboxylase

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 125-129

  Yun, Song Joong ^b   Oh, Suk Heung ^a  

^a Woosuk University   (South Korea)

^b Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Calmodulin; Glutamate Decarboxylase

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; PLANT DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOBACCO;

EID: 0032580023     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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