Plastidic aspartate aminotransferases and the biosynthesis of essential amino acids in plants

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 5527-5534

  De La Torre, Fernando ^a   Cañas, Rafael A ^a   Pascual, M Belén ^a   Avila, Concepción ^a   Cánovas, Francisco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arogenate; Aromatic amino acids; Aspartate; Aspartate metabolic pathway; Plastid; Prephenate

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ALPHA-KETOGLUTARIC ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTIC ACID; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; OXALOACETIC ACID; TYROSINE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHLOROPLAST; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLASTID;

AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; ASPARTIC ACID; CHLOROPLASTS; GLUTAMIC ACID; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXALOACETIC ACID; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PLASTIDS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TYROSINE;

EID: 84930535888     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru240     Document Type: Review

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