Purification, cloning and functional characterization of a fructan 6-exohydrolase from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 213-223

  Van Riet, Liesbet ^a   Nagaraj, Vinay ^b   Van Den Ende, Wim ^a   Clerens, Stefan ^a   Wiemken, Andres ^c   Van Laere, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

6 FEH; Fructan exohydrolase; Fructans; Grasses; Invertases; Levan; Pichia expression; Triticum aestivum; Wheat

Indexed keywords

CLONING; DNA; ENZYMES; FRUCTOSE; ION EXCHANGE; POLYMERS; PURIFICATION; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; SUGAR (SUCROSE); VEGETATION;

6-FEH; FRUCTAN EXOHYDROLASE; FRUCTANS; GRASSES; LEVAN; PICHIA EXPRESSION; WHEAT;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

FRUCTAN; GLYCOSIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PICHIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FRUCTANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PICHIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRITICUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PICHIA; PICHIA PASTORIS; POACEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 29344464120     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erj031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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