Saccharopine dehydrogenase activity in the high-lysine opaque and floury maize mutants

Food Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-64

  Pompeu, Geórgia Bertoni ^a   Vendemiatti, Ariane ^a   Gratão, Priscila Lupino ^a   Gaziola, Salete Aparecida ^a   Lea, Peter John ^b   Azevedo, Ricardo Antunes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Lysine; Mutants; Saccharopine dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; METABOLISM;

ISOENZYMES; LYSINE; MUTANTS; SACCHAROPINE DEHYDROGENASE;

ENZYME KINETICS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33645359991     PISSN: 08905436     EISSN: 15324249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08905430500524101     Document Type: Article

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