Modularity of conifer diterpene resin acid biosynthesis: P450 enzymes of different CYP720B clades use alternative substrates and converge on the same products

Plant Physiology

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 152-164

  Geisler, Katrin ^a   Jensen, Niels Berg ^a   Yuen, Macaire M S ^a   Madilao, Lina ^a   Bohlmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIETANE DERIVATIVE; ABIETIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; DITERPENE; GIBBERELLIN; ISOPIMARIC ACID; KAURANE DERIVATIVE; KAURENE; KAURENOIC ACID; PHENANTHRENE DERIVATIVE; PIMARIC ACID; PLANT DNA; PLANT PROTEIN; PLANT RESIN; SANDARACOPIMARIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MICROSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PINE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPRUCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DITERPENES; DITERPENES, ABIETANE; DITERPENES, KAURANE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GIBBERELLINS; MICROSOMES; PHENANTHRENES; PHYLOGENY; PICEA; PINUS; PLANT PROTEINS; RESINS, PLANT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84964836604     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00180     Document Type: Article

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