Transcriptionally active chromosomes (TACs) of barley chloroplasts contain the α-subunit of plastome-encoded RNA polymerase

Current Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 515-521

  Suck, Roland ^a   Zeltz, Patric ^b   Falk, Jon ^a   Acker, Axel ^b   Kössel, Hans ^b   Krupinska, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barley chloroplasts; RNA polymerase subunit; Transcriptionally active chromosome (TAC)

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DETERGENT; GENE PRODUCT; RNA POLYMERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMOSOME; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GEL FILTRATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHLOROPLASTS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HORDEUM; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; PLASTIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0030460145     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050164     Document Type: Article

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