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Engineering vitamin E content: from Arabidopsis mutant to soy oil.
The Plant cell - 1 Dec 2003
Van Eenennaam Alison L, Lincoln Kim, Durrett Timothy P, Valentin Henry E, Shewmaker Christine K, Thorne Greg M, Jiang Jian, Baszis Susan R, Levering Charlene K, Aasen Eric D, Hao Ming, Stein Joshua C, Norris Susan R, Last Robert L
Abstract excerpt
We report the identification and biotechnological utility of a plant gene encoding the tocopherol (vitamin E) biosynthetic enzyme 2-methyl-6-phytylbenzoquinol methyltransferase. This gene was identified by map-based cloning of the Arabidopsis mutation vitamin E pathway gene3-1 (vte3-1), which causes increased accumulation of delta-tocopherol and decreased gamma-tocopherol in the seed. Enzyme assays of recombinant...
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