Multicellular compartmentation of Catharanthus roseus alkaloid biosynthesis predicts intercellular translocation of a pathway intermediate

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 887-900

  St Pierre, Benoit ^a,c   Vazquez Flota, Felipe A ^b   De Luca, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; DEACETYLVINDOLINE 4 O ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DESACETOXYVINDOLINE 4 HYDROXYLASE; IMMUNOANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; RNA; STRICTOSIDINE; STRICTOSIDINE SYNTHASE;

CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032720893     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.5.887     Document Type: Article

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