A complementary bioinformatics approach to identify potential plant cell wall glycosyltransferase-encoding genes

Plant Physiology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 2609-2620

  Egelund, Jack ^a   Skjøt, Michael ^a   Geshi, Naomi ^a   Ulvskov, Peter ^a   Petersen, Bent Larsen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MEMBRANES; GENES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SERVERS;

BIOINFORMATICS; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES (GT); PLANT CELL WALLS;

ENZYMES;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALLS; ENZYMES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBRANES; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL WALL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENES, PLANT; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 16544361856     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.042978     Document Type: Article

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