Substrate specificity and sequence analysis define a polyphyletic origin of betanidin 5- and 6-O-glucosyltransferase from Dorotheanthus bellidiformis

Planta

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 492-495

  Vogt, Thomas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Betacyanin; Dorotheanthus (flavonoids) Glucosyltransferase; Flavonoids; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CHROMOGENICS; CLONING; DNA; ENZYMES;

GLYCOSYLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BIOSYNTHESIS;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANTHOCYANINS; BENZOPYRANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAVONOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOSYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; QUERCETIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CARYOPHYLLALES; DOROTHEANTHUS; DOROTHEANTHUS BELLIDIFORMIS;

EID: 0036941066     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-001-0685-1     Document Type: Article

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