Identification of photorespiratory glutamate:glyoxylate aminotransferase (GGAT) gene in Arabidopsis

Plant Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 975-987

  Igarashi, Daisuke ^a   Miwa, Tetsuya ^a   Seki, Motoaki ^b   Kobayashi, Masatomo ^b   Kato, Tomohiko ^c   Tabata, Satoshi ^c   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^b   Ohsumi, Chieko ^a  

^a AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^b RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Glutamate:glyoxylate aminotoransferase; Knockout line; Peroxisomes; Photorespiration

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CATALYSIS; ENZYMES; METABOLISM; RNA; TISSUE;

PHOTORESPIRATORY CARBON CYCLES;

GENES;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL RESPIRATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYOXYLATES; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEROXISOMES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSAMINASES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0037353576     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01688.x     Document Type: Article

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