Molecular and biochemical analysis of chalcone Synthase from freesia hybrid in flavonoid biosynthetic pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Sun, Wei ^a   Meng, Xiangyu ^a   Liang, Lingjie ^a   Jiang, Wangshu ^b   Huang, Yafei ^b   He, Jing ^a   Hu, Haiyan ^a   Almqvist, Jonas ^b   Gao, Xiang ^a   Wang, Li ^a  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLAVONOID; NARINGENIN; ACYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT PROTEIN;

ALFALFA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTYLEDON; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FHCHS1 GENE; FLOWER; FLOWER COLOR; FREESIA HYBRIDA; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETUNIA; PETUNIA HYBRIDA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEED HUSK; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; IRIDACEAE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; FREESIA; FREESIA HYBRIDA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; PETUNIA; PETUNIA X HYBRIDA;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FLAVONOIDS; FLOWERS; IRIDACEAE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 84924311371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119054     Document Type: Article

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