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Characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana pinoresinol reductase, a new type of enzyme involved in lignan biosynthesis.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 6 Jun 2008
Nakatsubo Tomoyuki, Mizutani Masaharu, Suzuki Shiro, Hattori Takefumi, Umezawa Toshiaki
Abstract excerpt
A lignan, lariciresinol, was isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana, the most widely used model plant in plant bioscience sectors, for the first time. In the A. thaliana genome database, there are two genes (At1g32100 and At4g13660) that are annotated as pinoresinol/lariciresinol reductase (PLR). The...
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