Evidence from Engineering that Decarboxylation of Free Serine is the Major Source of Ethanolamine Moieties in Plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1185-1191

  Rontein, Denis ^a,c   Rhodes, David ^b   Hanson, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Centre de Cadarache   (France)

Author keywords

Ethanolamine; Metabolic engineering; PEST motif; Phosphatidylserine decarboxylase; Serine decarboxylase; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ETHANOLAMINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0346146963     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg144     Document Type: Article

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