Characterization of selenocysteine methyltransferases from Astragalus species with contrasting selenium accumulation capacity

Plant Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 110-122

  Sors, Thomas G ^a   Martin, Catherine P ^b   Salt, David E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Astragalus bisulcatus; Astragalus drummondii; Homocysteine methyltransferase; Se methylselenocysteine; Selenium accumulation; Selenocysteine methyltransferase

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT RNA; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASTRAGALUS PLANT; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASTRAGALUS PLANT; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, PLANT; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ASTRAGALUS BISULCATUS; ASTRAGALUS DRUMMONDII;

EID: 67649494627     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.03855.x     Document Type: Article

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