Cloning and expression of a prokaryotic sucrose-phosphate synthase gene from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 297-305

  Lunn, John E ^a,b   Price, G Dean ^c   Furbank, Robert T ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CRC for Plant Science   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Prokaryotic; Sucrose; Sucrose phosphate synthase; Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Indexed keywords

CLONED GENE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; SUCROSE PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; PLANTS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033136352     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006130802706     Document Type: Article

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