Molecular characterization of transketolase (EC 2.2.1.1) active in the Calvin cycle of spinach chloroplasts

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 475-484

  Flechner, Anke ^a   Dressen, Uta ^b   Westhoff, Peter ^b   Henze, Katrin ^c   Schnarrenberger, Claus ^a   Martin, William ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon fixation; chloroplasts; evolution; isoenzymes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030294746     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00019099     Document Type: Article

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