Engineering triterpene and methylated triterpene production in plants provides biochemical and physiological insights into terpene metabolism

Plant Physiology

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 702-716

  Jiang, Zuodong ^a   Kempinski, Chase ^a   Bush, Caroline J ^a   Nybo, S Eric ^a,b   Chappell, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERANYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MEVALONIC ACID; PLANT PROTEIN; SQUALENE; SQUALENE SYNTHASE; TRITERPENE;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTID; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CARBON CYCLE; CHLOROPHYTA; FARNESYL-DIPHOSPHATE FARNESYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERANYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; HOMEOSTASIS; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MEVALONIC ACID; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; SQUALENE; TOBACCO; TRITERPENES;

EID: 84956821742     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.01548     Document Type: Article

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