Cloning, bioinformatics and the enzyme activity analyses of a phenylalanine ammonia-lyase gene involved in dragon's blood biosynthesis in Dracaena cambodiana

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-107

  Wang, Xing Hong ^a   Gong, Min ^b   Tang, Liang ^a,e   Zheng, Shui ^a   Lou, Ji Dong ^c   Ou, Lingcheng ^a   Gomes Laranjo, José ^d   Zhang, Changhe ^d  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^e CHANGSHA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Codon usage bias; Dracaena cambodiana; Dragon's blood; Enzyme activity; Phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA CONTENT; DRACAENA; DRACAENA CAMBODIANA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA LYASE GENE; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DRACAENA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA-LYASE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

FUSARIUM PROLIFERATUM; MUSA ACUMINATA;

EID: 84871322890     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-2032-y     Document Type: Article

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