An alternative pathway contributes to phenylalanine biosynthesis in plants via a cytosolic tyrosine:phenylpyruvate aminotransferase

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yoo, Heejin ^a   Widhalm, Joshua R ^a   Qian, Yichun ^a   Maeda, Hiroshi ^a,c   Cooper, Bruce R ^a   Jannasch, Amber S ^a   Gonda, Itay ^b   Lewinsohn, Efraim ^b   Rhodes, David ^a   Dudareva, Natalia ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLPYRUVIC ACID; SHIKIMIC ACID; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; PHENYLALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CATALYTIC EFFICIENCY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHLOROPLAST; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUSKMELON; NONHUMAN; PETUNIA; PETUNIA HYBRIDA; PLANT; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALIA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CYTOSOL; PETUNIA; PHENYLALANINE; PHENYLPYRUVIC ACIDS; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSAMINASES; TYROSINE;

EID: 84904223310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3833     Document Type: Article

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