Molecular cloning, bacterial expression and promoter analysis of squalene synthase from Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal

Gene

Volumn 499, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-36

  Bhat, Wajid Waheed ^a   Lattoo, Surrinder K ^a   Razdan, Sumeer ^a   Dhar, Niha ^a   Rana, Satiander ^a   Dhar, Rekha S ^a   Khan, Shabnam ^a   Vishwakarma, Ram A ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (India)

Author keywords

Promoter; SDS PAGE; Squalene synthase; Withaferin a; Withania somnifera; Withanolides

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; POLYPEPTIDE; SALICYLIC ACID; SQUALENE SYNTHASE; WITHAFERIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FARNESYL-DIPHOSPHATE FARNESYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; WITHANIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA;

EID: 84859748263     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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