The serine acetyltransferase gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana and the regulation of its expression by cadmium

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 589-598

  Howarth, Jonathan R ^a   Domínguez Solís, José R ^b   Gutiérrez Alcalá, Gloria ^b   Wray, John L ^c   Romero, Luis C ^b   Gotor, Cecilia ^b  

^a Agriculture and Environment Division   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cadmium stress; Cysteine biosynthesis; O acetylserine; Sulphur assimilation

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CADMIUM; CLONING; DETOXIFICATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE;

SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE (SAT);

GENES;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CADMIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037339765     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022349623951     Document Type: Article

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