Expression of bacterial tyrosine ammonia-lyase creates a novel p-coumaric acid pathway in the biosynthesis of phenylpropanoids in Arabidopsis

Planta

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 209-218

  Nishiyama, Yasutaka ^a   Yun, Choong Soo ^a,d   Matsuda, Fumio ^b,f   Sasaki, Tadamasa ^a,e   Saito, Kazuki ^b,c   Tozawa, Yuzuru ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flavonoid; Metabolic engineering; Phenylpropanoid pathway; Tyrosine ammonia lyase

Indexed keywords

4-COUMARIC ACID; AMMONIA LYASE; COUMARIC ACID; L TYROSINE AMMONIA LYASE; L-TYROSINE AMMONIA-LYASE; MESSENGER RNA; PARA COUMARIC ACID; PHENYLPROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PRIMER DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMMONIA-LYASES; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COUMARIC ACIDS; DNA PRIMERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENYLPROPIONATES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; RNA, MESSENGER;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; PHOTOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 77952541847     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-010-1166-1     Document Type: Article

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