Expression in yeast and tobacco of plant cDNAs encoding acyl CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-96

  Bouvier Navé, Pierrette ^a   Benveniste, Pierre ^a   Oelkers, Peter ^b   Sturley, Stephen L ^b   Schaller, Hubert ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Expression in yeast; Floating lipid layer; Plant diacylglycerol acyltransferase; Transgenic tobacco; Triacylglycerol synthesis

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; MICROSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC PLANT; YEAST;

ACYL COENZYME A; ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIACYLGLYCEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; DIGLYCERIDES; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPIDS; MICROSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRIGLYCERIDES; YEASTS;

EID: 0033971564     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.00961.x     Document Type: Article

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