Free amino acid production during tomato fruit ripening: A focus on L-glutamate

Amino Acids

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1523-1532

  Sorrequieta, Augusto ^a   Ferraro, Gisela ^a   Boggio, Silvana B ^a   Valle, Estela M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Glutamate synthesis; Micro Tom; Polyglutamate; Protease; Solanum lycopersicum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ARGININE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; PHENYLALANINE; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; SERINE; TELE METHYLHISTAMINE; THREONINE; TYROSINE; VALINE; AMINO ACID; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FRUIT RIPENING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERICARP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; TOMATO; BIOSYNTHESIS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

AMINO ACIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROLYSIS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77955896891     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-009-0373-1     Document Type: Article

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