Functional analysis of a β-ketoacyl-coa synthase gene, MpFAE2, by gene silencing in the liverwort marchantia polymorpha L

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 605-612

  Kajikawa, Masataka ^a   Yamaoka, Shohei ^a   Yamato, Katsuyuki T ^a   Kanamaru, Hiroyuki ^a   Sakuradani, Eiji ^a   Shimizu, Sakayu ^a   Fukuzawa, Hideya ^a   Ohyama, Kanji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dsrna mediated gene silencing; Fatty acid chain elongation; Marchantia polymorpha; Overexpression; ketoacyl CoA synthase gene

Indexed keywords

3 OXOACYL ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN SYNTHASE; ACETYL COENZYME A; FATTY ACID; MALONYL COENZYME A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; LIVERWORT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

3-OXOACYL-(ACYL-CARRIER-PROTEIN) SYNTHASE; ACETYL COENZYME A; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; FATTY ACIDS; GENE SILENCING; HEPATOPHYTA; MALONYL COENZYME A; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EUKARYOTA; MARCHANTIA; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 0041922408     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.67.605     Document Type: Article

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