Purification and cDNA cloning of UDP-D-glucuronate carboxy-lyase (UDP-D-xylose synthase) from pea seedlings

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1259-1265

  Kobayashi, Masaru ^a   Nakagawa, Hironobu ^a   Suda, Izumi ^a   Miyagawa, Isao ^a   Matoh, Toru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pisum sativum; UDP D glucuronate carboxylyase (EC 4.1.1.35); UDP D xylose

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PISUM; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0036857412     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcf157     Document Type: Article

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