Cloning and characterization of a squalene synthase gene from a petroleum plant, Euphorbia tirucalli L.

Planta

Volumn 229, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1243-1252

  Ohyama, Kanji ^a   Uchida, Hidenobu ^a   Yamashita, Hirofumi ^b   Kajikawa, Masataka ^c,g   Ohyama, Kiyoshi ^d   Nakayachi, Osamu ^a   Sugiyama, Ryuji ^e   Yamato, Katsuyuki T ^c   Muranaka, Toshiya ^f   Fukuzawa, Hideya ^c   Takemura, Miho ^a  

^a ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^f YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bundle sheath; Cambium; Euphorbia; In situ hybridization; In vitro enzyme reaction; Mevalonate pathway; Petroleum plant; Phytosterol; Squalene synthase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; ISOPRENOID PHOSPHATE; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; PHYTOSTEROL; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SESQUITERPENE; SQUALENE; SQUALENE SYNTHASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; EUPHORBIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EUPHORBIA; FARNESYL-DIPHOSPHATE FARNESYLTRANSFERASE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADP; PHYTOSTEROLS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SESQUITERPENES; SQUALENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA TIRUCALLI;

EID: 67349231952     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-009-0906-6     Document Type: Article

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