Targeting determinants and proposed evolutionary basis for the Sec and the Delta pH protein transport systems in chloroplast thylakoid membranes

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 823-832

  Henry, Ralph ^a,b   Carrigan, Matthew ^a   McCaffery, Michael ^a,b   Ma, Xianyue ^a   Cline, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; THYLAKOID MEMBRANE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEAS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0031035488     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.136.4.823     Document Type: Article

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