The biosynthesis of D-galacturonate in plants. Functional cloning and characterization of a membrane-anchored UDP-D-glucuronate 4-epimerase from arabidopsis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1221-1230

  Mølhøj, Michael ^a,b   Verma, Rajeev ^a   Reiter, Wolf Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b MICROMET AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CLONING; MEMBRANES; PH EFFECTS; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

MICROSOMES; PECTIN SYNTHESIS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; PICHIA; PICHIA PASTORIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 3543019727     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.043745     Document Type: Article

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