A non-synonymous nucleotide substitution can account for one evolutionary route to sesquiterpene synthase activity in the TPS-b subgroup

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1841-1846

  Green, Sol ^a   Baker, Edward N ^b   Laing, William ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Farnesene; Evolution; Malus domestica; Mutagenesis; Protein modelling; Terpene synthase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FARNESENE; MONOTERPENE BETA OCIMENE; SESQUITERPENE SYNTHASE; SYNTHETASE; TERPENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APPLE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 79958089960     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.04.038     Document Type: Article

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