Structural basis for substrate recognition in the salicylic acid carboxyl methyltransferase family

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1704-1716

  Zubieta, Chloe ^a,b,d   Ross, Jeannine R ^a,c   Koscheski, Paul ^a   Yang, Yue ^c   Pichersky, Eran ^c   Noel, Joseph P ^a,b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEINS;

SUBSTRATE RECOGNITION;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; CLARKIA; CLARKIA BREWERI;

EID: 0042421770     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.014548     Document Type: Article

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