Posttranslational assembly of photosynthetic metalloproteins

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 49, Issue , 1998, Pages 25-51

  Merchant, Sabeeha ^a   Dreyfuss, Beth Welty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Cofactor; Cytochrome; Fes (iron sulfur); Mutant

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031734812     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.49.1.25     Document Type: Article

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