Roles of conserved methionine residues in tobacco acetolactate synthase

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 306, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1075-1082

  Le, Dung Tien ^a   Yoon, Moon Young ^b   Kim, Young Tae ^c   Choi, Jung Do ^a  

^a Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acetolactate synthase; ClustalW; Conserved methionine; Herbicide; Multiple alignments; Resistance; Site directed mutagenesis; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ACETOLACTATE SYNTHASE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; HERBICIDE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; METHIONINE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; SULFONYLUREA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME INACTIVATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0038434135     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)01098-2     Document Type: Article

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