Characterization of the branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase enzyme family in tomato

Plant Physiology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 925-936

  Maloney, Gregory S ^a   Kochevenko, Andrej ^b   Tieman, Denise M ^a   Tohge, Takayuki ^b   Krieger, Uri ^c   Zamir, Dani ^c   Taylor, Mark G ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^b   Klee, Harry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON PENNELLII; SOLANUM;

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; BRANCHED-CHAIN-AMINO-ACID TRANSAMINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INBREEDING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; INBREEDING; KINETICS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 77954266751     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.110.154922     Document Type: Article

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