Glyoxysomal malate dehydrogenase in pumpkin: Cloning of a cDNA and functional analysis of its presequence

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 186-195

  Kato, Akira ^a   Takeda Yoshikawa, Yoko ^b   Hayashi, Makoto ^a   Kondo, Maki ^a   Hara Nishimura, Ikuko ^a   Nishimura, Mikio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Malate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.37); Microbodies; Processing; Pumpkin (Cucurbita sp.); Targeting signal; Glucuronidase

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CLONED GENE; GLYOXYLATE CYCLE; GLYOXYSOME; IMMUNOANALYSIS; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; OIL DEGRADATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; CUCURBITA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032005089     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029356     Document Type: Article

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