Molecular cloning and characterization of a taxadienol acetyl transferase cDNA from Taxus x media

Plant Science

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 759-764

  Kai, Guoyin ^a   Miao, Zhiqi ^a   Qiu, Chengxiang ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b   Zhao, Lingxia ^a   Li, Zhugang ^a   Xu, Tiefeng ^a   Zhang, Lida ^a   Gong, Yifu ^a   Zhao, Dongli ^b   Liu, Donghui ^a   Sun, Xiaofen ^b   Tang, Kexuan ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Phylogenetic tree analysis; RACE; rapid amplification of cDNA ends; TAT; taxadienol acetyl transferase; Taxadienol acetyl transferase; Taxus x media; Taxus x media taxadienol acetyl transferase; TmTAT; Universal primer A mix; UPM

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR CLONING; TISSUE-SPECIFIC GENE;

ACYLATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

CLONING;

TAXUS; TAXUS CHINENSIS; TAXUS CUSPIDATA; TAXUS X MEDIA;

EID: 3543081069     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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