Expression of an engineered granule-bound Escherichia coli glycogen branching enzyme in potato results in severe morphological changes in starch granules

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 470-479

  Huang, Xing Feng ^a,b   Nazarian Firouzabadi, Farhad ^a,c   Vincken, Jean Paul ^a   Ji, Qin ^a,d   Suurs, Luc C J M ^a   Visser, Richard G F ^a   Trindade, Luisa M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c LORESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d HUAIYIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

E. coli glycogen branching enzyme; GLGB; Starch; Starch granule morphology; Starch binding domain

Indexed keywords

1,4 ALPHA GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; STARCH;

ARTICLE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; POTATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

1,4-ALPHA-GLUCAN BRANCHING ENZYME; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; STARCH;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84876968697     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12033     Document Type: Article

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