Functional characterization of a class III acid endochitinase from the traps of the carnivorous pitcher plant genus, Nepenthes

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4639-4647

  Rottloff, Sandy ^a   Stieber, Regina ^a   Maischak, Heiko ^a   Turini, Florian G ^b   Heubl, Günther ^b   Mithöfer, Axel ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carnivorous plants; digestive fluid; endochitinase; Nepenthes; PR proteins; real time PCR

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; CHITINASE, CLASS III; MESSENGER RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARRACENIACEAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARNIVORY; CHITINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SARRACENIACEAE;

NEPENTHES; NEPENTHES RAFFLESIANA; SARRACENIACEAE;

EID: 80052911154     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err173     Document Type: Article

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