Expression of a bacterial serine acetyltransferase in transgenic potato plants leads to increased levels of cysteine and glutathione

Plant Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 335-343

  Harms, Karsten ^a   Von Ballmoos, Peter ^b   Brunold, Christian ^b   Höfgen, Rainer ^a   Hesse, Holger ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ACETYLSERINE; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; CYSE GENE; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; CYSTEINE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE TRANSFER; GLUTATHIONE; MESSENGER RNA; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; POTATO; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WILD RELATIVE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUTATHIONE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0034088162     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00743.x     Document Type: Article

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