Structural and transcriptional analysis of plant genes encoding the bifunctional lysine ketoglutarate reductase saccharopine dehydrogenase enzyme

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Anderson, Olin D ^a   Coleman Derr, Devin ^a,b   Gu, Yong Q ^a   Heath, Sekou ^a,c  

^a WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYPODIUM; DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIOPSIDA; PANICUM VIRGATUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

LYSINE; PLANT DNA; SACCHAROPINE DEHYDROGENASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPEN; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WHEAT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, PLANT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POPULUS; RNA SPLICE SITES; SACCHAROPINE DEHYDROGENASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRITICUM;

EID: 77953522643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-10-113     Document Type: Article

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