Mutations of cytochrome b6 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii disclose the functional significance for a proline to leucine conversion by petB editing in maize and tobacco

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-86

  Zito, Francesca ^a   Kuras, Richard ^a   Choquet, Yves ^a   Kössel, Hans ^b   Wollman, F A ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; cytochrome b6f complexes; cytochrome h6; RNA editing

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME B6F; LEUCINE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; PETB PROTEIN, PLANT; PROLINE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; CODON; DARKNESS; GENE; GENETICS; LIGHT; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PLANT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA EDITING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TOBACCO;

ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; CODON; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROME B6F COMPLEX; DARKNESS; GENES, PLANT; LEUCINE; LIGHT; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROLINE; RNA EDITING; TOBACCO; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030614556     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005734809834     Document Type: Article

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