Coexpression of the soybean vegetative storage protein β subunit (S-VSPβ) either with the bacterial feedback-insensitive dihydrodipicolinate synthase or with S-VSPα stabilizes the S-VSPβ transgene protein and enhances lysine production in transgenic tobacco plants

Transgenic Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 123-126

  Guenoune, Dana ^a   Amir, Rachel ^b   Badani, Hanna ^a   Wolf, Shmuel ^c   Galili, Shmuel ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Improved nutritional quality; Overexpression; Protein bound lysine; Soybean vegetative storage proteins; Transgenic tobacco plants

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CHLOROPLASTS; FEEDBACK; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HUMANS; HYDRO-LYASES; LYSINE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOYBEANS; TOBACCO; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; GLYCINE MAX; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0038060408     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022130100493     Document Type: Article

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