Polygalacturonase
"Polygalacturonase" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A cell wall-degrading enzyme found in microorganisms and higher plants. It catalyzes the random hydrolysis of 1,4-alpha-D-galactosiduronic linkages in pectate and other galacturonans. EC 3.2.1.15.
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D011096
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.450.800
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Polygalacturonase" by people in Profiles.
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Sanders RA, Hiatt W. Tomato transgene structure and silencing. Nat Biotechnol. 2005 Mar; 23(3):287-9.
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Pear JR, Sanders RA, Summerfelt KR, Martineau B, Hiatt WR. Simultaneous inhibition of two tomato fruit cell wall hydrolases, pectinmethylesterase and polygalacturonase, with antisense gene constructs. Antisense Res Dev. 1993; 3(2):181-90.
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Rose RE, Houck CM, Monson EK, DeJesus CE, Sheehy RE, Hiatt WR. The nucleotide sequence of the 5' flanking region of a tomato polygalacturonase gene. Nucleic Acids Res. 1988 Jul 25; 16(14B):7191.