Genetic analysis of chloroplast c-type cytochrome assembly in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: One chloroplast locus and at least four nuclear loci are required for heme attachment

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 681-692

  Xie, Zhiyi ^a   Culler, Duane ^a   Dreyfuss, Beth Welty ^a   Kuras, Richard ^b   Wollman, Francis Andre ^b   Girard Bascou, Jacqueline ^b   Merchant, Sabeeha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; HEME;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031951970     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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