A cell suspension based uptake method to study high affinity glucosinolate transporters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Glucosinolates are an important class of secondary metabolites characteristic to the order Brassicales. They are known to play a major role in plant defense and from the human perspective, can be anticarcinogenic or antinutritive. GTRs are plasma-membrane localized high affinity glucosinolate transporters, which are important components of the source (leaf) to sink (seed) translocation of intact glucosinolates in members of Brassicaceae family. GTRs are identified as major candidates for Brassica crop improvement, thus dictating a need for their functional characterization. However, currently there are limitations in availability of heterologous assay systems for functional characterization of plant secondary metabolite transporters. To date, the animal-based X

SUBMITTER: Nambiar DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7247208 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature