Developing fructan-synthesizing capability in a plant invertase via mutations in the sucrose-binding box

Plant Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 228-237

  Ritsema, Tita ^a,b   Hernández, Lázaro ^b,c   Verhaar, Auke ^b   Altenbach, Denise ^a   Boller, Thomas ^a   Wiemken, Andres ^a   Smeekens, Sjef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CENTER FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Fructan; Fructosyltransferase; Glycoside hydrolase; Natural variation; Point mutations; Vacuolar invertase

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASE; NATURAL VARIATION; POINT MUTATIONS; VACUOLAR INVERTASE;

AMINO ACIDS; ENZYME KINETICS; HYDROLYSIS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; FRUCTAN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; INULOSUCRASE; SUCROSE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ONION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA-FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CODON, NONSENSE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRUCTANS; GLYCOSYLATION; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; HYDROLYSIS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONIONS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUCROSE;

AMINO ACIDS; ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY; FRUCTANS; HYDROLYSIS;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 33749234777     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2006.02862.x     Document Type: Article

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