Silencing the transcriptional repressor, ZCT1, illustrates the tight regulation of terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus hairy roots

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Rizvi, Noreen F ^a   Weaver, Jessica D ^b   Cram, Erin J ^b   Lee Parsons, Carolyn W T ^a,b  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; ESTRADIOL; GERANIOL; GERANIOL 10 HYDROXYLASE; INDOLE ALKALOID; JASMONIC ACID METHYL ESTER; OCTADECANOID RESPONSIVE CATHARANTHUS AP2 ERF DOMAIN; STRICTOSIDINE; STRICTOSIDINE SYNTHASE; TERPENOID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZCT1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZCT2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZCT3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RAUWOLFIA ALKALOID; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; G10H GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HAIRY ROOT CULTURE; NONHUMAN; ORCA2 GENE; ORCA3 GENE; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; STR GENE; ZCT1 GENE; ZCT2 GENE; ZCT3 GENE; CATHARANTHUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CATHARANTHUS; GENE SILENCING; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SECOLOGANIN TRYPTAMINE ALKALOIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84982735384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159712     Document Type: Article

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