Clarification of cinnamoyl co-enzyme A reductase catalysis in monolignol biosynthesis of aspen

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1073-1082

  Li, Laigeng ^a   Cheng, Xiaofei ^a,c   Lu, Shanfa ^a   Nakatsubo, Tomoyuki ^b   Umezawa, Toshiaki ^b   Chiang, Vincent L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cinnamoyl co enzyme A reductase (CCR); Lignin; Monolignol biosynthesis; Xylem

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; CINNAMOYL COA REDUCTASE; CINNAMOYL COENZYME A; CINNAMOYL-COENZYME A; ESTER; LIGNIN;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACYL COENZYME A; ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; CATALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESTERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; LIGNIN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POPULUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 25444453719     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci120     Document Type: Article

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