Molecular cloning and characterization of the enzyme UDP-glucose: Protein transglucosylase from potato

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 809-819

  Bocca, Silvia N ^a   Kissen, Ralph ^b   Rojas Beltrán, Jorge A ^b   Noël, Fabrice ^b   Gebhardt, Christiane ^c   Moreno, Silvia ^a   Du Jardin, Patrick ^b   Tandecarz, Juana S ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Glycosyl transferase; Reversible glycosylation; Self glycosylation; Solanum tuberosum; Starch synthesis; UDP Glc:protein transglucosylase

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CDNA LIBRARY; CHEMICAL LABELING; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOPLASM; GLYCOSYLATION; GOLGI APPARATUS; MANGANESE; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLASTID; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE PROTEIN TRANSGLUCOSYLASE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0033458835     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0981-9428(99)00117-5     Document Type: Article

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