Molecular evolution of the substrate specificity of ent -kaurene synthases to adapt to gibberellin biosynthesis in land plants

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 462, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 539-546

  Shimane, Manami ^a   Ueno, Yohei ^a   Morisaki, Keiko ^a   Oogami, Shingo ^b   Natsume, Masahiro ^a   Hayashi, Ken Ichiro ^b   Nozaki, Hiroshi ^b   Kawaide, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclase; Ent kaurene; Gibberellin; Phytoalexin; Selaginella moellendorffii; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

4 IODO 2,5 DIMETHOXYAMPHETAMINE; ENT COPALYL DIPHOSPHATE; ENT KAURENE SYNTHASE; GERANYLGERANYL PYROPHOSPHATE; GIBBERELLIN; KAURENE DERIVATIVE; PYROPHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; EMBRYOPHYTA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; LETTUCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SELAGINELLA MOELLENDORFFII; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STEREOISOMERISM; STEREOSPECIFICITY;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYOPHYTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GIBBERELLINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; PLANT PROTEINS; SELAGINELLACEAE; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84907356645     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20140134     Document Type: Article

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