Posttranslational regulation of nitrate reductase strongly affects the levels of free amino acids and nitrate, whereas transcriptional regulation has only minor influence

Plant Physiology

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1085-1094

  Lea, Unni S ^a   Leydecker, Marie Thérèse ^b   Quilleré, Isabelle ^b   Meyer, Christian ^b   Lillo, Cathrine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; METABOLITES; NITRATES;

NICOTIANA PLUMBAGINIFOLIA; NITRATE REDUCTASE (NR); POSTTRANSLATIONAL REGULATION; TRANSFORMANTS;

ENZYME KINETICS;

AMINO ACIDS; GLUTAMINE; METABOLISM; NITRATES;

CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; NICOTIANA PLUMBAGINIFOLIA;

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACIDS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIGHT; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TOBACCO;

EID: 33646939035     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.074633     Document Type: Article

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