Biosynthesis of fucoxanthin and diadinoxanthin and function of initial pathway genes in Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 5607-5612

  Dambek, Michael ^a   Eilers, Ulrike ^a   Breitenbach, Jürgen ^a   Steiger, Sabine ^a   Büchel, Claudia ^a   Sandmann, Gerhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotenogenic genes; complementation; diadinoxanthin; fucoxanthin; genetic pathway; neoxanthin; Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; DIADINOXANTHIN; FUCOXANTHIN; ISOMERASE; LYCOPENE CYCLASE ISOMERASE; LYCOPENE CYCLASE-ISOMERASE; NEOXANTHIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHYTOENE; PHYTOENE DEHYDROGENASE; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE; VIOLAXANTHIN; XANTHOPHYLL; ZETA CAROTENE; ZETA CAROTENE DESATURASE; ZETA-CAROTENE DESATURASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DIATOM; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY;

BETA CAROTENE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAROTENOIDS; DIATOMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GERANYLGERANYL-DIPHOSPHATE GERANYLGERANYLTRANSFERASE; INTRAMOLECULAR LYASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; XANTHOPHYLLS; ZETA CAROTENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHAEODACTYLUM TRICORNUTUM;

EID: 84866651198     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers211     Document Type: Article

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