Cloning and characterization of a glucosyltransferase from crocus sativus stigmas involved in flavonoid glucosylation

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Moraga, Ángela Rubio ^a   Mozos, Almudena Trapero ^a,b   Ahrazem, Oussama ^a   Gómez Gómez, Lourdes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b University of Castilla La Mancha   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROCUS; CROCUS SATIVUS;

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

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CROCUS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROCUS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; FLAVONOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOSYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 69949124673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-9-109     Document Type: Article

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