Cloning and characterization of cDNAs encoding for long-chain saturated acyl-ACP thioesterases from the developing seeds of Brassica juncea

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 476-480

  Jha, Saheli Sinha ^a,b   Jha, Jyoti K ^a,b   Chattopadhyaya, Banani ^a   Basu, Asitava ^a   Sen, Soumitra K ^a   Maiti, Mrinal K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brassica juncea; FatB class thioesterases; Fatty acid profile; Heterologous expression in E. coli; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA JUNCEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; PLANT DNA; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLANT SEED; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUSTARD PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT STRUCTURES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEEDS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THIOLESTER HYDROLASES;

EID: 77958173029     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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