Molecular cloning and functional expression of codeinone reductase: The penultimate enzyme in morphine biosynthesis in the opium poppy Papaver somniferum

Plant Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 465-475

  Unterlinner, Bernhard ^a   Lenz, Rainer ^a,b   Kutchan, Toni M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

6 DEOXYCHALCONE SYNTHASE; AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CODEINONE REDUCTASE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHINE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENYLPROPANOID;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, PLANT; ISOENZYMES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHINE; PAPAVER; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; GLYCINE MAX; PAPAVER; PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM;

EID: 0033152629     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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