Characterization of a chloroplast isoform of serine acetyltransferase from the thermo-acidiphilic red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research

Volumn 1403, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 72-84

  Toda, Kyoko ^a   Takano, Hiroyoshi ^a   Miyagishima, Shin ya ^a   Kuroiwa, Haruko ^b   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYORITSU WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanidioschyzon merolae; Red alga; Serine acetyltransferase; Sulfate assimilation

Indexed keywords

SERINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; GENE ISOLATION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RED ALGA; STROMA;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ALGAE, RED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, PLANT; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOENZYMES; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ALGAE; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0032572072     PISSN: 01674889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4889(98)00031-7     Document Type: Article

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