The western red cedar (Thuja plicata) 8-8′ DIRIGENT family displays diverse expression patterns and conserved monolignol coupling specificity

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 199-214

  Kim, Myoung K ^a   Jeon, Jae Heung ^a   Fujita, Masayuki ^a   Davin, Laurence B ^a   Lewis, Norman G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

8 8 ; DIRIGENT multigene family; Lignans and lignins; Real time PCR; Recombinant protein; Stereoselective phenoxy radical coupling; Western red cedar (Thuja plicata)

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CLONING; DNA; GENES; PROTEINS;

CODING REGIONS;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA; THUJA; THUJA PLICATA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

LIGNAN; LIGNIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHENOXYL RADICAL; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NASA DISCIPLINE PLANT BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THUJA;

NASA DISCIPLINE PLANT BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGNANS; LIGNIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOLS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THUJA;

EID: 0036010866     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014940930703     Document Type: Article

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