A plant in vitro system for the nuclear import of proteins

Plant Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1177-1186

  Merkle, Thomas ^a,d   Leclerc, Denis ^a   Marshallsay, Christopher ^b   Nagy, Ferenc ^a,c  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0030470301     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1996.10061177.x     Document Type: Article

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