Two Arabidopsis threonine aldolases are nonredundant and compete with threonine deaminase for a common substrate pool

Plant Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3565-3575

  Joshi, Vijay ^a   Laubengayer, Karen M ^a,c   Schauer, Nicolas ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^b   Jander, Georg ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; METABOLITES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALBINO PHENOTYPE; ARABIDOPSIS THREONINE ALDOLASES; CATABOLIC ENZYMES;

ENZYMES;

AMINO ACIDS; ENZYMES; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; ISOLEUCINE; LYASE; THA1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; THA2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; THREONINE; THREONINE DEHYDRATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT SEED; RECESSIVE GENE; SEEDLING; YEAST;

ALDEHYDE-LYASES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, RECESSIVE; GLUCURONIDASE; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; ISOLEUCINE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THREONINE; THREONINE DEHYDRATASE; YEASTS;

EID: 33947493669     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.106.044958     Document Type: Article

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