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Molecular characterization of Glycine max squalene synthase genes in seed phytosterol biosynthesis.
Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB - 1 Dec 2013
Nguyen Hanh T M, Neelakadan Anjanasree K, Quach Truyen N, Valliyodan Babu, Kumar Rajesh, Zhang Zhanyuan, Nguyen Henry T
Abstract excerpt
The reaction catalyzed by squalene synthase (EC.2.5.1.21) that converts two molecules of farnesyl pyrophosphate to squalene represents a crucial branch point of the isoprenoid pathway in diverting carbon flux towards the biosynthesis of sterols. In the present study two soybean squalene synthase genes, GmSQS1 and GmSQS2, were identified in the soybean genome and functionally characterized for their roles in...
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