Plant tropane alkaloid biosynthesis evolved independently in the Solanaceae and Erythroxylaceae

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10304-10309

  Jirschitzka, Jan ^a   Schmidt, Gregor W ^a   Reichelt, Michael ^a   Schneider, Bernd ^a   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^a   D'Auria, John Charles ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Immunolocalization; Immunoprecipitation; Pseudotropine

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; CHALCONE; COCAINE; ECGONINE METHYL ESTER; MORPHINE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SCOPOLAMINE; TROPANE ALKALOID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ERYTHROXYLACEAE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLANACEAE;

ALKALOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ERYTHROXYLACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SOLANACEAE;

ERYTHROXYLACEAE; ERYTHROXYLUM COCA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 84862998899     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200473109     Document Type: Article

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