Protein import into cyanelles and complex chloroplasts

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 247-263

  Schwartzbach, Steven D ^a   Osafune, Tetsuaki ^b   Löffelhardt, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b NIPPON SPORT SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chromophytes; Cyanelles; Dinoflagellates; Euglena; Protein import; Red algae

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLOROPLAST; GOLGI APPARATUS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE; CHROMOPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUGLENA; EUKARYOTA; GLAUCOCYSTOPHYCEAE; PHAEOPHYCEAE; PROKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0032169539     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5298-3_13     Document Type: Article

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