Dammaradiene synthase, a squalene cyclase, from Dryopteris crassirhizoma Nakai

Phytochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2559-2564

  Shinozaki, Junichi ^a,b   Shibuya, Masaaki ^a   Masuda, Kazuo ^b   Ebizuka, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHOWA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dammaradiene synthase; Dryopteridaceae; Dryopteris crassirhizoma Nakai; Squalene cyclase; Triterpene

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LYASE; PLANT RNA; SQUALENE CYCLASE; TRITERPENE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DRYOPTERIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DRYOPTERIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LYASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PLANT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRITERPENES;

ADIANTUM; ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DRYOPTERIDACEAE; DRYOPTERIS; DRYOPTERIS CRASSIRHIZOMA; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 56949086913     PISSN: 00319422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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