Molecular cloning and ethylene-inducible expression of chibl chitinase from soybean (glycine max (l.) merr.)

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 251-256

  Watanabe, Akira ^a   Nong, Van Hai ^a,b   Zhang, Deyu ^a   Arahira, Masaomi ^a   Asare Yeboah, Nana ^a   Udaka, Kyoko ^c   Fukazawa, Chikafusa ^a  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^c TOKYO KASEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acidic chitinases; Ethylene inducible expression; Gene cloning; PR 8 chitinase classification; Soybean

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; PHYTOHORMONE; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; PLC B PROTEIN, PHYTOLACCA AMERICANA; PLC-B PROTEIN, PHYTOLACCA AMERICANA; PRIMER DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SOYBEAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHITINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOYBEANS;

EID: 0033069494     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.251     Document Type: Article

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