Functional identification of Arabidopsis ATSIP2 (At3g57520) as an alkaline α-galactosidase with a substrate specificity for raffinose and an apparent sink-specific expression pattern

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1815-1819

  Peters, Shaun ^a   Egert, Aurélie ^a   Stieger, Bruno ^b   Keller, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alkaline galactosidase; Phloem unloading; Raffi nose; Sf9 insect cells; Sink metabolism

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GALACTOSIDASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; RAFFINOSE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSECT; METABOLISM; PHLOEM; PROMOTER REGION;

ALPHA-GALACTOSIDASE; ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INSECTS; PHLOEM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RAFFINOSE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; CUCUMIS MELO; HEXAPODA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77957950488     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcq127     Document Type: Article

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