Cloning and functional characterisation of a cis-muuroladiene synthase from black peppermint (Mentha × piperita) and direct evidence for a chemotype unable to synthesise farnesene

Phytochemistry

Volumn 67, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1564-1571

  Prosser, Ian M ^a   Adams, Racheal J ^a   Beale, Michael H ^a   Hawkins, Nathan D ^a   Phillips, Andrew L ^a   Pickett, John A ^a   Field, Linda M ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(E) farnesene; Black peppermint; cis Muuroladiene; Farnesyl diphosphate; Mentha piperita; Sesquiterpene synthase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FARNESOIC ACID; TRANSFERASE; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MENTHA PIPERITA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENES, PLANT; MENTHA PIPERITA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MENTHA; MENTHA X PIPERITA;

EID: 33747387665     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2005.06.012     Document Type: Article

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