Engineering of cysteine and methionine biosynthesis in potato

Amino Acids

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 259-278

  Nikiforova, V ^a   Kempa, S ^a   Zeh, M ^a   Maimann, S ^a   Kreft, O ^a   Casazza, A P ^a   Riedel, K ^b   Tauberger, E ^b   Hoefgen, R ^a   Hesse, H ^b  

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

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cystathionine beta lyase; Cystathionine gamma synthase; Cysteine biosynthesis; Methionine biosynthesis; Methionine synthase; Nutritional quality; Potato; Serine actetyltransferase; Threonine synthase; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; BIOTIN; CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTEINE; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; ETHYLENE; GLUTATHIONE; ISOLEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; METHYL GROUP; PHYTOCHELATIN; POLYAMINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; SERINE; SULFUR; THREONINE; 5 METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE HOMOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTATHIONINE BETA LYASE; CYSTATHIONINE BETA-LYASE; LYASE; METHIONINE; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; THREONINE SYNTHETASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; DIET; FOOD; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE ISOLATION; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PLANT; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TUBEROSUM;

5-METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; ACETYLTRANSFERASES; CARBON-OXYGEN LYASES; CYSTEINE; DNA, ANTISENSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HUMANS; LYASES; METHIONINE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0035989868     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007260200013     Document Type: Review

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