A novel protein with DNA binding activity from tobacco chloroplast nucleoids

Plant Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1673-1682

  Nakano, Takeshi ^a,b   Murakami, Shinya ^a   Shoji, Tsubasa ^a   Yoshida, Shigeo ^b   Yamada, Yasuyuki ^a,c   Sato, Fumihiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 0031225204     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.9.9.1673     Document Type: Article

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