Cloning sulfur assimilation genes of Brassica juncea L.: Cadmium differentially affects the expression of a putative low-affinity sulfate transporter and isoforms of ATP sulfurylase and APS reductase

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 847-857

  Heiss, Senta ^a   Schäfer, Holger J ^a   Haag Kerwer, Angela ^a   Rausch, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

APS reductase; ATP sulfurylase; Brassica juncea L.; Cadmium; Low affinity sulfate transporter; Myrosinase; Sulfate assimilation

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CLONED GENE; PLANT GENETICS; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BRASSICA; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENZYME INDUCTION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ISOENZYMES; KINETICS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON SULFUR GROUP DONORS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFATE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; SULFATES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BRASSICA JUNCEA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0344348998     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006169717355     Document Type: Article

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