β-D-glycan synthases and the cesa gene family: Lessons to be learned from the mixed-linkage (1 → 3),(1 → 4) β-D-glucan synthase

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 145-160

  Vergara, Claudia E ^a   Carpita, Nicholas C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

glucan synthase; Arabidopsis thaliana; Cell walls; Cellulose synthase; CesA genes; Oryza sativa; Phylogeny; Polysaccharide synthesis; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; BETA GLUCAN SYNTHASE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RELATIONSHIP; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYPERVARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

BIODIVERSITY; CATALYSIS; CHITIN; GENES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS;

ENZYME KINETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCANS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; POLYSACCHARIDES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; ZEA MAYS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EMBRYOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA; POACEAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0034876896     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010631431620     Document Type: Review

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