Vanillin formation from ferulic acid in Vanilla planifolia is catalysed by a single enzyme

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gallage, Nethaji J ^a,b   Hansen, Esben H ^c   Kannangara, Rubini ^a,b   Olsen, Carl Erik ^a   Motawia, Mohammed Saddik ^a,b   Jørgensen, Kirsten ^a,b   Holme, Inger ^d   Hebelstrup, Kim ^d   Grisoni, Michel ^e   Møller, Birger Lindberg ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Center for Synthetic Biology: BioSYNergy   (Denmark)

^c 4 Evolva A S   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^f CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXYBENZALDEHYDE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; CAFFEIC ACID; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; FERULIC ACID; GLUCOSIDE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HYDROLYASE; PARA COUMARIC ACID; VANILLIN; BENZALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; COUMARIC ACID; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE; CATALYSIS; CELL ORGANELLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; MONOCOTYLEDON; ORGANIC ACID; TOBACCO;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; CATALYST; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOTOPE LABELING; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRECURSOR; PROTEOMICS; RETICULOCYTE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STABLE EXPRESSION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; VANILLA PLANIFOLIA; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; VANILLA;

BENZALDEHYDES; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; COUMARIC ACIDS; PLANT PROTEINS; VANILLA;

EID: 84903187465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5037     Document Type: Article

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