Three 4-coumarate:coenzyme A ligases in arabidopsis thaliana represent two evolutionarily divergent classes in angiosperms

Plant Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-20

  Ehlting, Jürgen ^a   Büttner, Daniela ^a   Wang, Qing ^b   Douglas, Carl J ^b   Somssich, Imre E ^a   Kombrink, Erich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 COUMARATE COENZYME A LIGASE; ADAPTATION; BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PERONOSPORA PARASITICA; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHENYLPROPANOID; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; COENZYME A LIGASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; HYALOPERONOSPORA PARASITICA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PERONOSPORA; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 0039552100     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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