Determination of residues responsible for substrate and product specificity of Solanum habrochaites short-chain cis-prenyltransferases

Plant Physiology

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 80-91

  Kang, Jin Ho ^a   Gonzales Vigil, Eliana ^a,c   Matsuba, Yuki ^b   Pichersky, Eran ^b   Barry, Cornelius S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS PRENYL TRANSFERASE; CIS-PRENYL TRANSFERASE; GERANYLTRANSFERASE; ISOPRENOID PHOSPHATE; TERPENE; TRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOLANUM; TRICHOME;

GERANYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLANUM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TERPENES; TRANSFERASES; TRICHOMES;

EID: 84891776136     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.230466     Document Type: Article

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