4-Coumarate: CoA ligase partitions metabolites for eugenol biosynthesis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1238-1252

  Rastogi, Shubhra ^a   Kumar, Ritesh ^a   Chanotiya, Chandan S ^a   Shanker, Karuna ^a   Gupta, Madan M ^a   Nagegowda, Dinesh A ^a   Shasany, Ajit K ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

Author keywords

Coumarate:CoA ligase; Eugenol; Lignin; Ocimum sanctum; Phenylpropene; RNAi

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; OCIMUM; OCIMUM BASILICUM; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM;

4 COUMARATE COA LIGASE; 4-COUMARATE-COA LIGASE; 4-COUMARIC ACID; COUMARIC ACID; ESSENTIAL OIL; EUGENOL; ISOENZYME; LIGNIN; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; PARA COUMARIC ACID; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHENYLPROPENE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

4; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COUMARATE:COA LIGASE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCIMUM; OCIMUM TENUIFLORUM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; RNAI;

4; COUMARATE:COA LIGASE; EUGENOL; LIGNIN; OCIMUM SANCTUM; PHENYLPROPENE; RNAI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; COENZYME A LIGASES; COUMARIC ACIDS; EUGENOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; ISOENZYMES; LIGNIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCIMUM; OILS, VOLATILE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOLS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84881410469     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct073     Document Type: Article

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