Terpene synthase genes in eukaryotes beyond plants and fungi: Occurrence in social amoebae

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 43, 2016, Pages 12132-12137

  Chen, Xinlu ^a   Köllner, Tobias G ^b   Jia, Qidong ^a   Norris, Ayla ^a   Santhanam, Balaji ^c   Rabe, Patrick ^d   Dickschat, Jeroen S ^d   Shaulsky, Gad ^c   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^b   Chen, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amoebae; Chemical ecology; Evolution; Terpene synthases; Volatiles

Indexed keywords

DITERPENE; SYNTHETASE; TERPENE; ISOENZYME; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TERPENE SYNTHASE; TRANSFERASE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOME; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; ADAPTATION; CLASSIFICATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; VOLATILIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DICTYOSTELIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; ISOENZYMES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TERPENES; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84992364795     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1610379113     Document Type: Article

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