Analysis of the Arabidopsis O-acetylserine(thiol)lyase gene family demonstrates compartment-specific differences in the regulation of cysteine synthesis

Plant Cell

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 168-185

  Heeg, Corinna ^a   Kruse, Cordula ^a   Jost, Ricarda ^b   Gutensohn, Michael ^c   Ruppert, Thomas ^a   Wirtz, Markus ^a   Hella, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CYSTEINE; ISOENZYME; SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SULFUR; T DNA; T-DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CYSTEINE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, PLANT; ISOENZYMES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SULFUR; SULFUR RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 43549120312     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.056747     Document Type: Article

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