Transcription factors: Tools to engineer the production of pharmacologically active plant metabolites

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 563-569

  Gantet, Pascal ^a   Memelink, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b Inst of Molecular Plant Sciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ANTHOCYANIN; CODEINE; COLCHICINE; DNA; ENDOTHELIN 1; FLAVONOID; MORPHINE; PACLITAXEL; PLANT EXTRACT; SANGUINARINE; SCOPOLAMINE; TANNIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE; VINBLASTINE;

BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATHARANTHUS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; MAIZE; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REVIEW;

ALKALOIDS; CATHARANTHUS; FLAVONOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HUMANS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036890833     PISSN: 01656147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-6147(02)02098-9     Document Type: Review

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