Highly Divergent Methyltransferases Catalyze a Conserved Reaction in Tocopherol and Plastoquinone Synthesis in Cyanobacteria and Photosynthetic Eukaryotes

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2343-2356

  Cheng, Zigang ^a   Sattler, Scott ^a   Maeda, Hiroshi ^a   Sakuragi, Yumiko ^b   Bryant, Donald A ^b   DellaPenna, Dean ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; ENZYMES; GENES; LIPIDS;

MUTANTS;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ALGAE; ARABIDOPSIS; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; THALASSIOSIRA; THALASSIOSIRA PSEUDONANA;

EID: 0142028814     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.013656     Document Type: Article

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