Article
Yeast 5-aminolevulinate synthase provides additional chlorophyll precursor in transgenic tobacco.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Jul 1997
Zavgorodnyaya A, Papenbrock J, Grimm B
Abstract excerpt
Synthesis of the tetrapyrrole precursor 5-aminolevulinate (ALA) in plants starts with glutamate and is a tRNA-dependent pathway consisting of three enzymatic steps localized in plastids. In animals and yeast, ALA is formed in a single step from succinyl CoA and glycine by aminolevulinate synthase...
Topics
- 5-Aminolevulinate Synthetase
- Chlorophyll
- DNA Primers
- Mitochondria
- Phenotype
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Plants, Toxic
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins
- Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Signal Transduction
- Nicotiana