Heterologous expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae of an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA encoding mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 953-967

  Cordier, Hélène ^a   Karst, Francis ^b   Bergès, Thierry ^a  

^a IBMIG Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et dIngenierie Genetique   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Heterologous expression; Isoprenoids; Mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sterols

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOPENTENYL PYROPHOSPHATE; ISOPRENOID; MEVALONATE DIPHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; OPEN READING FRAME; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARBOXY-LYASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEROLS;

EID: 0033103924     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006181720100     Document Type: Article

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