Tailoring tropane alkaloid accumulation in transgenic hairy roots of Atropa baetica by over-expressing the gene encoding hyoscyamine 6β-hydroxylase

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1271-1277

  Zárate, Rafael ^a,b   El Jaber Vazdekis, Nabil ^a,b   Medina, Braulio ^a   Ravelo, Ángel G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO NUESTRA SEÑORA DE CANDELARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atropa baetica; Genetic engineering; Hairy roots; Hyoscyamine 6 hydroxylase (H6H); Tropane alkaloids

Indexed keywords

ATROPA BAETICA; HAIRY ROOTS; HYOSCYAMINE 6Β-HYDROXYLASE (H6H); TROPANE ALKALOIDS;

AMINES; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALKALOID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYOSCYAMINE (6S) DIOXYGENASE; HYOSCYAMINE (6S)-DIOXYGENASE; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ATROPA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; PLASMID; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALKALOIDS; ATROPA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; RNA;

AGROBACTERIUM RHIZOGENES; ATROPA; ATROPA BAETICA; HYOSCYAMUS; HYOSCYAMUS NIGER;

EID: 33746066347     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: 15736776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-006-9085-8     Document Type: Article

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