Characterization and Isolation of the Chloroplast Protein Import Machinery

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 50, Issue C, 1995, Pages 255-267

  Waegemann, Karin ^a   Soll, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PEA; PLANT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RABBIT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PEAS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029448155     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)61035-3     Document Type: Article

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