Functional analysis of a rice oxidosqualene cyclase through total gene synthesis

Molecular Plant

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1726-1729

  Sun, Juncong ^a,b   Xu, Xia ^a,b   Xue, Zheyong ^a   Snyder, John Hugh ^a   Qi, Xiaoquan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANOSTEROL SYNTHASE; MUTASE;

ALLELE; BIOCATALYSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LETTER; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; RICE;

ALLELES; BIOCATALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; ORYZA SATIVA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84884596805     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sst038     Document Type: Letter

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