Molecular Cloning and Characterization of a cDNA for Pterocarpan 4-Dimethylallyltransferase Catalyzing the Key Prenylation Step in the Biosynthesis of Glyceollin, a Soybean Phytoalexin

Akashi, Tomoyoshi; Sasaki, Kanako; Aoki, Toshio; Ayabe, Shin‐ichi; Yazaki, Kazufumi

doi:10.1104/pp.108.123679

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Molecular Cloning and Characterization of a cDNA for Pterocarpan 4-Dimethylallyltransferase Catalyzing the Key Prenylation Step in the Biosynthesis of Glyceollin, a Soybean Phytoalexin

Published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY • Dec 17, 2008

Authors:

Tomoyoshi Akashi

Kanako Sasaki

Toshio Aoki

Abstract

Glyceollins are soybean (Glycine max) phytoalexins possessing pterocarpanoid skeletons with cyclic ether decoration originating from a C5 prenyl moiety. Enzymes involved in glyceollin biosynthesis have been thoroughly characterized during the early era of modern plant biochemistry, and many genes en...

Subject

Prenyltransferase

Phytoalexin

Isoflavonoid

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