A Soluble Chloroplast Protease Processes the Euglena Polyprotein Precursor to the Light Harvesting Chlorophyll a/b Binding Protein of Photosystem II

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 743-746

  Enomoto, Toshiki ^a,b   Sulli, Chidananda ^a   Schwartzbach, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b Ishikawa Agricultural College   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Euglena; LHCPII; Polyprotein processing; Protease

Indexed keywords

EUGLENA;

EID: 0009946969     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029229     Document Type: Article

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