Characterization of phenylpropene O-methyltransferases from sweet basil: Facile change of substrate specificity and convergent evolution within a plant O-methyltransferase family

Plant Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 505-519

  Gang, David R ^a   Lavid, Noa ^a   Zubieta, Chloe ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   Beuerle, Till ^a   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^a   Noel, Joseph P ^a   Pichersky, Eran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DNA; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MUTAGENESIS;

SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CLARKIA; CLARKIA BREWERI; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; OCIMUM BASILICUM;

2,7,4' TRIHYDROXYISOFLAVANONE; 2,7,4'-TRIHYDROXYISOFLAVANONE; ANISOLE DERIVATIVE; CAFFEATE O METHYLTRANSFERASE; CAFFEATE O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTRAGOLE; EUGENOL; EUGENOL O METHYLTRANSFERASE; EUGENOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASIL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANISOLES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUGENOL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ISOFLAVONES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; OCIMUM BASILICUM; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036009782     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.010327     Document Type: Article

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