The emerging field of transport engineering of plant specialized metabolites

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 263-270

  Nour Eldin, Hussam Hassan ^a   Halkier, Barbara Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSINOLATES; METABOLITE LEVEL; MODEL SYSTEM; PRIMARY METABOLITE; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TISSUE SPECIFICS; TRANSPORT ENGINEERING; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

BIOMOLECULES; CELL MEMBRANES; DERIVATIVES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

METABOLITES;

CARRIER PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCOSINOLATE; MULTIDRUG AND TOXIN EXTRUSION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; NICOTINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPLAST; ARABIDOPSIS; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOENGINEERING; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSPORT; CELL VACUOLE; NONHUMAN; PHLOEM; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TRANSPORT ENGINEERING; XYLEM;

ALKALOIDS; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GLUCOSINOLATES; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PLANTS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; VACUOLES;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 84874954483     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2012.09.006     Document Type: Review

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