PpASCL, a moss ortholog of anther-specific chalcone synthase-like enzymes, is a hydroxyalkylpyrone synthase involved in an evolutionarily conserved sporopollenin biosynthesis pathway

New Phytologist

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 855-868

  Colpitts, Che C ^a   Kim, Sung Soo ^b   Posehn, Sarah E ^a   Jepson, Christina ^a   Kim, Sun Young ^a   Wiedemann, Gertrud ^c   Reski, Ralf ^c   Wee, Andrew G H ^a   Douglas, Carl J ^b   Suh, Dae Yeon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkylpyrone synthase; Gene expression; Land plant evolution; Physcomitrella patens; Polyketide synthase; Protein modeling; Spore wall; Sporopollenin biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BIOPOLYMER; CAROTENOID; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; ISOMERASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PYRONE DERIVATIVE; SPOROPOLLENIN;

DATA SET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HERB; MOSS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLEN; POLYMER; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION; SPORE; SPOROPHYTE; SUBSTRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRYOPSIDA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOPOLYMERS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BRYOPSIDA; CAROTENOIDS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INTRAMOLECULAR OXIDOREDUCTASES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; PYRONES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; PHYSCOMITRELLA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS;

EID: 81055156965     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03858.x     Document Type: Article

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