Identification of avian wax synthases

BMC Biochemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Biester, Eva Maria ^a   Hellenbrand, Janine ^a   Gruber, Jens ^a   Hamberg, Mats ^b   Frentzen, Margrit ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTER; PALMITOYL COENZYME A HYDROLASE; SYNTHETASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WAX ESTER; WAX SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BARN OWL; BIRD; CATALYSIS; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EUKARYOTE; GOOSE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OWL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST CELL;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHICKENS; EXOCRINE GLANDS; GEESE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LIPIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRIGIFORMES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANSER; ANSERIFORMES; AVES; EUKARYOTA; GALLIFORMES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 84856418419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2091-13-4     Document Type: Article

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