Phylogeny and structure of the cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase gene family in Brachypodium distachyon

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 6223-6236

  Bukh, Christian ^a   Nord Larsen, Pia Haugaard ^a   Rasmussen, Søren K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Brachypodium distachyon (Bd21 3); Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD); coniferyl aldehyde; gene structure; lignocellulose; recalcitrance; signal peptide

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; CINNAMYL ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; LIGNIN; PLANT RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BRACHYPODIUM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PH; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOMASS; BRACHYPODIUM; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHLOROPLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; LIGNIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRACHYPODIUM; BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84868022310     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers275     Document Type: Article

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