Heterologous expression analyses of rice OsCAS in Arabidopsis and in yeast provide evidence for its roles in cyanide detoxification rather than in cysteine synthesis in vivo

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 993-1008

  Lai, Kwok Wai ^a   Yau, Chi Ping ^a   Tse, Yu Chung ^b   Jiang, Liwen ^b,c   Yip, Wing Kin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology   (China)

Author keywords

cyanoalanine synthase; Cyanide; Ethylene; Rice; Serine acetyltransferase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA CYANOALANINE SYNTHETASE; BETA-CYANOALANINE SYNTHASE; CYANIDE; CYSTEINE; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LYASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOTOPROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RICE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYANIDES; CYSTEINE; ETHYLENES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; KINETICS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LYASES; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, DRUG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARABIDOPSIS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; LILIOPSIDA;

EID: 62349118389     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern343     Document Type: Article

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