Targeting of a functional Escherichia coli RecA protein to the nucleus of plant cells

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 253, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 695-702

  Reiss, B ^a   Kosak, H ^a   Klemm, M ^a   Schell, J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATPase; Immunofluorescence; Nuclear localisation signal; Strand exchange; SV40

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA STRAND; ESCHERICHIA; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTOPLAST; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, POLYOMAVIRUS TRANSFORMING; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; REC A RECOMBINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TOBACCO;

EID: 0030889064     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050373     Document Type: Article

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