Thebaine synthase: A new enzyme in the morphine pathway in Papaver somniferum

Natural Product Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 249-253

  Fisinger, Ursula ^a   Grobe, Nadja ^a,b   Zenk, Meinhart H ^a,b  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dibenz d; F azonine; Papaver somniferum; Salutaridinol 7 O acetate; Thebaine; Thebaine synthase

Indexed keywords

EID: 42249094600     PISSN: 1934578X     EISSN: 15559475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0700200305     Document Type: Article

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