GAME9 regulates the biosynthesis of steroidal alkaloids and upstream isoprenoids in the plant mevalonate pathway

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Cárdenas, Pablo D ^a,b   Sonawane, Prashant D ^a   Pollier, Jacob ^c,d   Vanden Bossche, Robin ^c,d   Dewangan, Veena ^e   Weithorn, Efrat ^a   Tal, Lior ^a   Meir, Sagit ^a   Rogachev, Ilana ^a   Malitsky, Sergey ^a   Giri, Ashok P ^e   Goossens, Alain ^c,d   Burdman, Saul ^b   Aharoni, Asaph ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGLYCONE; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; CHOLESTEROL; GLYCOALKALOID METABOLISM 9; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; ISOPRENOID; MEVALONIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SOLANIDINE; STEROID; STEROL C5 DESATURASE; STEROL SIDE CHAIN REDUCTACE 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIMYC2; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALKALOID; GLUCOSE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT PROTEIN; TERPENE;

ALKALOID; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOPRENOID; METABOLITE; PATHOGEN; POTATO; STEROID; TOBACCO;

ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME 1; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GLYCOSYLATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; POTATO; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLANACEAE; TOMATO; TRANSACTIVATION; UPREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

ALKALOIDS; CHOLESTEROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GLUCOSE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MEVALONIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-CH GROUP DONORS; PLANT PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TERPENES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84958213099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10654     Document Type: Article

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