Conversion of tryptophan to indole-3-acetic acid by tryptophan aminotransferases of Arabidopsis and YUCCAs in Arabidopsis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 45, 2011, Pages 18518-18523

  Won, Christina ^a   Shen, Xiangling ^a   Mashiguchi, Kiyoshi ^b   Zheng, Zuyu ^c   Dai, Xinhua ^a   Cheng, Youfa ^a   Kasahara, Hiroyuki ^b   Kamiya, Yuji ^b   Chory, Joanne ^c   Zhao, Yunde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Elements Chemistry Laboratory   (Japan)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXIN; ETHYLENE; INDOLEACETIC ACID; QUERCETIN; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; TRYPTOPHAN TRANSAMINASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; YUCCA;

EID: 81055145212     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108436108     Document Type: Article

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