Metabolic redesign of vitamin E biosynthesis in plants for tocotrienol production and increased antioxidant content

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1082-1087

  Cahoon, Edgar B ^a,b   Hall, Sarah E ^a   Ripp, Kevin G ^a   Ganzke, Thaya S ^a   Hitz, William D ^a   Coughlan, Sean J ^a,c  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; DNA; ENZYMES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED; VITAMINS;

CEREAL GRAINS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ALPHA TOCOTRIENOL; ANTIOXIDANT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HOMOGENTISIC ACID; HOMOGENTISIC ACID GERANYLGERANYLTRANSFERASE; TOCOPHEROL; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BARLEY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CEREAL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CORN; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VITAMIN METABOLISM; WHEAT;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ANTIOXIDANTS; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HORDEUM; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TOCOPHEROLS; TOCOTRIENOLS; TRITICUM; VITAMIN E;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0041358593     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt853     Document Type: Article

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