Fusion proteins comprising the catalytic domain of mutansucrase and a starch-binding domain can alter the morphology of amylose-free potato starch granules during biosynthesis

Transgenic Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 645-656

  Nazarian Firouzabadi, Farhad ^a,b   Kok Jacon, Géraldine A ^a,c   Vincken, Jean Paul ^a   Ji, Qin ^a,d   Suurs, Luc C J M ^a   Visser, Richard G F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LORESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Division of Crop Biotechnics   (Belgium)

^d HUAIYIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Glucansucrase; Granule morphology; Granule boundness; Microscopy; Mutan; Starch binding domain; Transgenic potato

Indexed keywords

ALTERNANSUCRASE; AMYLOSE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; STARCH; SUCRASE; SUCROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT TUBER; POTATO; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMYLOSE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT TUBERS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARCH; SUCRASE; SUCROSE;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 34548418594     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-006-9053-z     Document Type: Article

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