Molecular cloning and characterization of DXS and DXR genes in the terpenoid biosynthetic pathway of Tripterygium wilfordii

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 25516-25535

  Tong, Yuru ^a   Su, Ping ^a   Zhao, Yujun ^a   Zhang, Meng ^a   Wang, Xiujuan ^a   Liu, Yujia ^a   Zhang, Xianan ^a   Gao, Wei ^a   Huang, Luqi ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

Color complementation; Tripterygium wilfordii; TwDXR; TwDXS1; TwDXS2

Indexed keywords

TERPENOID; 1-DEOXY-D-XYLULOSE 5-PHOSPHATE REDUCTOISOMERASE; DEOXYXYLULOSE-5-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; ISOMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSFERASE;

1 DEOXY XYLULOSE 5 PHOSPHATE REDUCTOISOMERASE GENE; 1 DEOXY XYLULOSE 5 PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRIPTERYGIUM WILFORDII; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TRIPTERYGIUM;

ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFERASES; TRIPTERYGIUM;

EID: 84945255418     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms161025516     Document Type: Article

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