AtSUC8 and AtSUC9 encode functional sucrose transporters, but the closely related AtSUC6 and AtSUC7 genes encode aberrant proteins in different Arabidopsis ecotypes

Plant Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 120-130

  Sauer, Norbert ^a   Ludwig, Andreas ^a   Knoblauch, Alexander ^a   Rothe, Petra ^a   Gahrtz, Manfred ^b   Klebl, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AtSUC genes; Expression in yeast; Ka:Ks; Pseudogenes; Splicing variants; Sucrose carrier

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; SUGAR (SUCROSE); YEAST;

GENE FAMILY; HOMOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; SUCROSE TRANSPORTERS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; PRIMER DNA; SUCROSE TRANSPORT PROTEIN, PLANT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; ECOSYSTEM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, PLANT;

GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS; SUCROSE; YEASTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 5144233908     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02196.x     Document Type: Article

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