Identification and biochemical characterization of four wood-associated glucuronoxylan methyltransferases in Populus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Yuan, Youxi ^a   Teng, Quincy ^a   Zhong, Ruiqin ^a   Ye, Zheng Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCURONIC ACID; GLUCURONOXYLAN METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CATALYSIS; CELL ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENE; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PTRGXM GENE; PTRGXM1 GENE; PTRGXM2 GENE; PTRGXM3 GENE; PTRGXM4 GENE; WOOD;

CELL WALL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULUS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; WOOD; XYLANS;

EID: 84895726308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087370     Document Type: Article

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