A Previously Unknown Maltose Transporter Essential for Starch Degradation in Leaves

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5654, 2004, Pages 87-89

  Niittylä, Torre ^a   Messerli, Gaälle ^b   Trevisan, Martine ^b   Chen, Jychian ^c   Smith, Alison M ^a   Zeeman, Samuel C ^b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); STARCH;

MUTATIONS;

MALTOSE;

CARRIER PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE; MALTOSE; MALTOSE TRANSPORTER MEX1; STARCH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENE; LEAF; STARCH;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CHLOROPLAST; GENE MUTATION; MUTANT; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAF; POTATO CYST NEMATODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSE; MALTOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0346096943     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1091811     Document Type: Article

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