Cloning, characterization and functional analysis of novel 6-kestose exohydrolases (6-KEHs) from wheat (Triticum aestivum)

New Phytologist

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 917-932

  Van Den Ende, Wim ^a   Yoshida, Midori ^b   Clerens, Stefan ^a   Vergauwen, Rudy ^a   Kawakami, Akira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HOKKAIDO REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

6 kestosidase (6 KEH); Cold tolerance; Fructan exohydrolases (FEHs); Triticum aestivum; Wheat

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSIDASE; ISOENZYME;

CLONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRITICUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PICHIA PASTORIS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 19344363281     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01394.x     Document Type: Article

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