Transcriptome analysis of Bupleurum chinense focusing on genes involved in the biosynthesis of saikosaponins

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sui, Chun ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Wei, Jianhe ^a   Chen, Shilin ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Xu, Jiesen ^a   Jin, Yue ^a   Xie, Caixiang ^a   Gao, Zhihui ^a   Chen, Hongjiang ^a   Yang, Chengmin ^a   Zhang, Zheng ^a   Xu, Yanhong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANT DEVELOPMENT   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; SAIKOSAPONIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; OLEANOLIC ACID; PLANT DNA; SAPONIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BUPLEURUM CHINENSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME MECHANISM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC CODE; GENUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; PLANT ROOT; PLANT TISSUE; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; BUPLEURUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MEDICINAL PLANT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BUPLEURUM; BUPLEURUM CHINENSE;

BUPLEURUM; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DNA, PLANT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, PLANT; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OLEANOLIC ACID; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SAPONINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 80055112904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-539     Document Type: Article

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