Tissue and intracellular localization of indican and the purification and characterization of indican synthase from indigo plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 218-225

  Minami, Yoshiko ^a   Nishimura, Osamu ^a   Hara Nishimura, Ikuko ^b,c   Nishimura, Mikio ^b,c   Matsubara, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Indican; Indican synthase; Indigo; Polygonum tinctorium; UDP glucosyltransferase (EC 4.2.1 . )

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CELL VACUOLE; ELUTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; INDICAN; INDICAN SYNTHASE; INDIGO; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PH; PLANT EXTRACT; PROTOPLAST; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE;

INDIGOFERA; POLYGONUM TINCTORIUM;

EID: 0034066515     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/41.2.218     Document Type: Article

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