Engineering tolerance and hyperaccumulation of arsenic in plants by combining arsenate reductase and γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase expression

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1140-1145

  Dhankher, Om Parkash ^a   Li, Yujing ^a   Rosen, Barry P ^b   Shi, Jin ^b   Salt, David ^c   Senecoff, Julie F ^a   Sashti, Nupur A ^a   Meagher, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARSENITE TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DIPEPTIDE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLCYSTEINE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLCYSTEINE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; ACTIN; ARSENATE REDUCTASE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; ION TRANSPORT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; REFERENCE VALUE; SOIL POLLUTANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER POLLUTANT; ACT2P GENE; ARSC GENE; ARSENIC POISONING; CATALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; METAL TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOYBEAN; SPECIES RICHNESS; SRS1P GENE; WILD TYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARSENATES; ARSENIC; ARSENITE TRANSPORTING ATPASES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DIPEPTIDES; DRUG TOLERANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ION PUMPS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REFERENCE VALUES; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARSENIC; CATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE;

GENETICS-BASED PHOTOREMEDIATION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0036843447     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt747     Document Type: Article

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