Isolation of cyanophycin from tobacco and potato plants with constitutive plastidic cphA Te gene expression

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 158, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 50-58

  Neubauer, Katja ^a   Hühns, Maja ^a   Hausmann, Tina ^a   Klemke, Friederike ^b   Lockau, Wolfgang ^b   Kahmann, Uwe ^c   Pistorius, Elfriede K ^c   Kragl, Udo ^a   Broer, Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biopolymer; Cyanophycin; Polyaspartic acid; Potato; Tobacco; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

35S PROMOTER; AMYLOPLASTS; CODING REGION; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYANOPHYCIN; DRY WEIGHT; PHOTOSYSTEM II; POLYASPARTIC ACID; POLYMER CONTENT; POLYMER SAMPLES; POTATO; POTATO PLANTS; POTATO STARCHES; SYNTHETASES; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TRANSGENIC PLANTS; TRANSGENIC TOBACCO;

BIOPOLYMERS; GENE EXPRESSION; POLYMERS;

TOBACCO;

CYANOPHYCIN;

AMYLOPLAST; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHLOROPLAST; DRY WEIGHT; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYSTEM II; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; TOBACCO;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; CYANOBACTERIA; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; THERMOSYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS BP-1;

EID: 84857108988     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: 18734863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2011.12.008     Document Type: Article

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