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作者单位:Juan-Juan Li (1) Gan Zhang (1) Ji-hua Yu (1) Yang-yang Li (1) Xin-he Huang (1) Wan-Jun Wang (1) Rui Tan (1) Jia-yu Zhou (1) Hai Liao (1)
1. College of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, Sichuan, China
Objectives To clone and characterize caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase (LcCOMT) from the rhizome of Ligusticum chuanxiong, a traditional medicinal herb having a high content of ferulic acid.