Activating glutamate decarboxylase activity by removing the autoinhibitory domain leads to hyper γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) accumulation in tomato fruit

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 103-116

  Takayama, Mariko ^a   Matsukura, Chiaki ^a   Ariizumi, Tohru ^a   Ezura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

E8 promoter; Fruit ripening; GABA; HSP terminator; Tomato

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; CAROTENOID; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PIGMENTATION; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOMATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAROTENOIDS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PIGMENTATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN DOMAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84990869287     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-016-2061-4     Document Type: Article

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