Regulation of aspartate-derived amino acid homeostasis in potato plants (Solanum tuberosum L.) by expression of E. coli homoserine kinase

Amino Acids

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-222

  Rinder, J ^a   Casazza, A P ^b   Hoefgen, R ^a   Hesse, H ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aspartate family; Homoserine kinase; Methionine; Potato; Threonine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBON; CYSTATHIONINE; CYSTATHIONINE BETA LYASE; CYSTEINE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HOMOSERINE; HOMOSERINE KINASE; METHIONINE SYNTHASE; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; CELL METABOLISM; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOSOL; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ORTHOLOGY; PLANT NUTRITION; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; WILD TYPE;

ASPARTIC ACID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HOMEOSTASIS; HOMOSERINE; METHIONINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; THREONINE;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 39049153784     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-007-0504-5     Document Type: Article

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