The silkworm Green b locus encodes a quercetin 5-O-glucosyltransferase that produces green cocoons with UV-shielding properties

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 11471-11476

  Daimon, Takaaki ^a   Hirayama, Chikara ^b   Kanai, Masatoshi ^a   Ruike, Yoshinao ^c   Meng, Yan ^a,d   Kosegawa, Eiichi ^b   Nakamura, Masatoshi ^b   Tsujimoto, Gozoh ^c   Katsuma, Susumu ^a   Shimada, Toru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bombyx; Flavonoid; Mulberry; UGT

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; QUERCETIN 5 O GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; QUERCETIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; INSECT PROTEIN; QUERCETIN; QUERCETIN 5 O GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE, BOMBYX MORI; QUERCETIN 5-O-GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE, BOMBYX MORI; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; COCOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GLYCOSYLATION; GREEN B LOCUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SHIELD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILKWORM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULBERRY; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; MORUS (ANGIOSPERM);

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BOMBYX; GENE DELETION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORUS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; QUERCETIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 77954913415     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000479107     Document Type: Article

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