Characterization of an isoform of rice starch branching enzyme, RBE4, in developing seeds

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 349-357

  Mizuno, Kouichi ^a,c   Kobayashi, Eiki ^a   Tachibana, Masato ^a   Kawasaki, Tsutomu ^b   Fujimura, Tatsuhito ^a   Funane, Kazumi ^c   Kobayashi, Mikihiko ^c   Baba, Tadashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Mitsui Plant Biotechnology Research Institute   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Branching enzyme (EC 2.4.1.18); Gene expression; Rice seeds; Starch

Indexed keywords

1,4 ALPHA GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CDNA CLONE; DNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PRODUCT; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PLANT TISSUE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SEED DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STARCH; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

1,4-ALPHA-GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0034998682     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pce042     Document Type: Article

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