Amino-terminal and hydrophobic regions of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastocyanin transit peptide are required for efficient protein accumulation in vivo

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 365-377

  Kindle, Karen L ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Chloroplast; Import; Plastocyanin; Targeting; Transit peptide

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOSOL; HYDROPHOBICITY; MESSENGER RNA; PLASTOCYANIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THYLAKOID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PLASTOCYANIN; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0032190144     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006025606330     Document Type: Article

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