Putrescine N-methyltransferases - A structure-function analysis

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 787-801

  Teuber, Michael ^a   Azemi, Mohammad E ^a   Namjoyan, Foroogh ^a   Meier, Anna Carolin ^a   Wodak, Anja ^a   Brandt, Wolfgang ^b   Dräger, Birgit ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calystegines; Convolvulaceae; Putrescine N methyltransferase; Solanaceae; Spermidine synthase; Tropane alkaloids

Indexed keywords

CALYSTEGINES; CONVOLVULACEAE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; SOLANACEAE; SPERMIDINE SYNTHASE (SPDS); TROPANE ALKALOIDS;

BIOSYNTHESIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SUBSTRATES;

ENZYME INHIBITION;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PUTRESCINE; PUTRESCINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE; PUTRESCINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; SPERMIDINE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLVULACEAE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLVULACEAE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PUTRESCINE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLANACEAE; SPERMIDINE SYNTHASE;

METABOLISM;

CONVOLVULACEAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 33947137673     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-006-9126-7     Document Type: Article

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