S-methylmethionine plays a major role in phloem sulfur transport and is synthesized by a novel type of methyltransferase

Plant Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1485-1497

  Bourgis, Fabienne ^a   Roje, Sanja ^a   Nuccio, Michael L ^a   Fisher, Donald B ^b   Tarczynski, Mitchell C ^c   Li, Changjiang ^c   Herschbach, Cornelia ^d   Rennenberg, Heinz ^d   Pimenta, Maria Joao ^e   Shen, Tun Li ^f   Gage, Douglas A ^f   Hanson, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^f Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME MECHANISM; METHYLTRANSFERASE; S METHYLMETHIONINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

APHIDIDAE; ARABIDOPSIS; ASTERACEAE; BRASSICACEAE; CUCURBITACEAE; FABACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; POACEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; WOLLASTONIA BIFLORA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033177870     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.11.8.1485     Document Type: Article

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