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Kinetic modelling
Plant defense metabolites
Simulation of metabolism
Methylthioalkylmalate synthase
Methionine chain elongation
Elongation pathway
Saccharomyces-cerevisiae
Escherichia-coli
Enzymatic chains
Biosynthesis
Metabolism
Biochemistry
Diversity
Selection
Kinetics
Plant Sciences in Current Contents(R)/Agricultural, Biology & Environmental Sciences Animal & Plant Sciences in Current Contents(R)/Life Sciences
Abstract:
Aliphatic glucosinolates are a major class of defensive secondary metabolites in plants that are mostly derived from methionine. Occurring in different chain lengths, they show a structural diversity arising from the variable number of chain elongation