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Metabolic engineering of cell cultures versus whole plant complexity in production of bioactive monoterpene indole alkaloids: recent progress related to old dilemma.

Heterologous expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of raucaffricine glucosidase, a plant enzyme specifically involved in Rauvolfia alkaloid biosynthesis.

Rustom Jal Vakil: his contributions to cardiology.

Synthesis of deserpidine from reserpine.

Functional expression of an ajmaline pathway-specific esterase from Rauvolfia in a novel plant-virus expression system.

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of native and selenomethionyl vinorine synthase from Rauvolfia serpentina.

Indole alkaloids and other constituents of Rauwolfia serpentina.

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of strictosidine synthase and its complex with the substrate tryptamine.

Melamine salt of bis(methylol)phosphinic acid (melaphene) as a regulator of Rauwolfia serpentina specialized metabolism.

Variability of ribosomal RNA genes in Rauwolfia species: parallelism between tissue culture-induced rearrangements and interspecies polymorphism.

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of strictosidine synthase from Rauvolfia: the first member of a novel enzyme family.

Vinorine synthase from Rauvolfia: the first example of crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of an enzyme of the BAHD superfamily.

Purification and partial amino acid sequences of the enzyme vinorine synthase involved in a crucial step of ajmaline biosynthesis.

Acetyltransfer in natural product biosynthesis--functional cloning and molecular analysis of vinorine synthase.

[Change in activity of superoxide dismutase in callus culture of Rauwolfia serpentina Benth., grown in standard conditions and with temperature shock].

In vivo monitoring of alkaloid metabolism in hybrid plant cell cultures by 2D cryo-NMR without labelling.

Production of ajmalicine and ajmaline in hairy root cultures of Rauvolfia micrantha Hook f., a rare and endemic medicinal plant.

Probing suggested catalytic domains of glycosyltransferases by site-directed mutagenesis.

[The accumulation and degradation dynamics of cyanophycin in cyanobacteria grown in symbiotic associations with plant tissues and cells].

Anhydronium bases from Rauvolfia serpentina.