The MUR3 gene of Arabidopsis encodes a xyloglucan galactosyltransferase that is evolutionarily related to animal exostosins

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1662-1670

  Madson, Michael ^a   Dunand, Christophe ^b,c   Li, Xuemei ^b   Verma, Rajeev ^b   Vanzin, Gary F ^b,d   Caplan, Jeffrey ^b   Shoue, Douglas A ^a   Carpita, Nicholas C ^a   Reiter, Wolf Dieter ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; ENZYMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYSACCHARIDES;

WILD-TYPE PLANTS;

GENES;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 0037963449     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.009837     Document Type: Article

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