Cloning of Arabidopsis thaliana glutathione synthetase (GSH2) by functional complementation of a yeast gsh2 mutant

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 662-669

  Ullmann, Pascaline ^a   Gondet, Laurence ^a   Potier, Serge ^b   Bach, Thomas J ^a,b  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; cadmium; evolutionary relationships; expression cloning; glutathione synthetase

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029965703     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.00662.x     Document Type: Article

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