| Literature DB >> 14659702 |
Pedro M Coutinho1, Mark Stam, Eric Blanc, Bernard Henrissat.
Abstract
Plants contain far more carbohydrate-active enzyme-encoding genes than any other organism sequenced to date. The extremely large number of glycosidase and glycosyltransferase-related genes in plant genomes can be explained by the complex structure of the plant cell wall, by ancient genome duplication and by recent local duplications, but also by the recent emergence of novel and unrelated protein functions based on widely available pre-existing scaffolds.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14659702 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2003.10.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Plant Sci ISSN: 1360-1385 Impact factor: 18.313