Independent recruitment of a flavin-dependent monooxygenase for safe accumulation of sequestered pyrrolizidine alkaloids in grasshoppers and moths

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Linzhu ^a,d   Beuerle, Till ^b   Timbilla, James ^c   Ober, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; N OXYGENASE; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DUPLICATION; GRASSHOPPER; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGENATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLAVINS; GRASSHOPPERS; KINETICS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84857394108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031796     Document Type: Article

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