The arabinose kinase, ARA1, gene of Arabidopsis is a novel member of the galactose kinase gene family

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1003-1012

  Sherson, Sarah ^a,d   Gy, Isabelle ^b   Medd, Jonathan ^a   Schmidt, Renate ^c,e   Dean, Caroline ^c   Kreis, Martin ^b   Lecharny, Alain ^b   Cobbett, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT SCIENCES PARIS SACLAY IPS2   (France)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e Max Delbruck Laboratorium der Max Planck Gesellschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Arabinose kinase; Galactose kinase; Sugar salvage pathways

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE KINASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALACTOSE KINASE GENE; GENE MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENETICS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME WALKING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GALACTOKINASE; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033103443     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006181908753     Document Type: Article

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