Functional and structural characterization of a flavonoid glucoside 1,6-Glucosyltransferase from catharanthus roseus

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1401-1415

  Masada, Sayaka ^a   Terasaka, Kazuyoshi ^a   Oguchi, Yukie ^a   Okazaki, Seiji ^b,c   Mizushima, Tunehiro ^a   Mizukami, Hajime ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catharanthus roseus; Flavonoid glucoside 1,6 glucosyltransferase; Functional characterization; Homology modeling; Sugarsugar glycosyltransferase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLAVONOID; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCOSIDE; PLANT DNA; QUERCETIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATHARANTHUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CATHARANTHUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; FLAVONOIDS; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOSIDES; GLYCOSYLATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUERCETIN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 68949157434     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp088     Document Type: Article

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