Recombinant pinoresinol-lariciresinol reductases from Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) catalyze opposite enantiospecific conversions

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 274, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 618-627

  Fujita, Masayuki ^a,b   Gang, David R ^a   Davin, Laurence B ^a   Lewis, Norman G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CATALYSIS; CLONING; DNA; NATURAL FIBERS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

CHAIN REACTION; HEARTWOOD FORMATION; PINORESINOL LARICIRESINOL REDUCTASE; WESTERN RED CEDAR;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

OXIDOREDUCTASE; PINORESINOL;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ENANTIOMER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEREOSPECIFICITY; TREE;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEREOISOMERISM;

FORSYTHIA X INTERMEDIA; JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA; THUJA PLICATA;

EID: 0033534466     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.2.618     Document Type: Article

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