Gas-chromatography mass-spectrometry (GC-MS) based metabolite profiling reveals mannitol as a major storage carbohydrate in the coccolithophorid Alga Emiliania huxleyi

Metabolites

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 168-184

  Obata, Toshihiro ^a   Schoenefeld, Steffi ^a   Krahnert, Ina ^a   Bergmann, Susan ^a   Scheffel, André ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coccolithophorid; Emiliania huxleyi; GC MS; Isotope labelling; Mannitol; Metabolite profiling; Primary carbon metabolism

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; FUMARIC ACID; MALIC ACID; MANNITOL; MANNITOL DEHYDROGENASE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARBON METABOLISM; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; HAPTOPHYTA; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEAF TISSUE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 85016493087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22181989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/metabo3010168     Document Type: Article

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