Administering cultured Taxus cells with early precursors reveals bifurcations in the taxoid biosynthetic pathway

Phytochemistry

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 335-341

  Ketchum, Raymond E B ^a   Horiguchi, Tohru ^b   Qiu, Deyou ^a   Williams, Robert M ^b   Croteau, Rodney B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Taxaceae; Taxadienol acetylation; Taxol; Taxus cuspidata; Taxus media; Taxuyunnanine C; Yew

Indexed keywords

TAXOID;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; TAXUS;

CELLS, CULTURED; TAXOIDS; TAXUS;

TAXACEAE; TAXUS; TAXUS CUSPIDATA; TAXUS X MEDIA;

EID: 33846188515     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2006.10.019     Document Type: Article

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