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Arabidopsis ATP A2 peroxidase. Expression and high-resolution structure of a plant peroxidase with implications for lignification.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Sept 2000
Ostergaard L, Teilum K, Mirza O, Mattsson O, Petersen M, Welinder K G, Mundy J, Gajhede M, Henriksen A
Abstract excerpt
Lignins are phenolic biopolymers synthesized by terrestrial, vascular plants for mechanical support and in response to pathogen attack. Peroxidases have been proposed to catalyse the dehydrogenative polymerization of monolignols into lignins, although no specific isoenzyme has been shown to be involved in lignin biosynthesis. Recently we isolated an extracellular anionic peroxidase, ATP A2, from rapidly...
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