Isolation of dividing chloroplasts with intact plastid-dividing rings from a synchronous culture of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

Planta

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 371-375

  Miyagishima, Shin Ya ^a   Itoh, Ryuuichi ^a,c   Aita, Saburo ^b   Kuroiwa, Haruko ^a   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JEOL LTD   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanidioschyzon (plastid isolation); Organelle isolation; Plastid division; Plastid dividing ring; Synchronization of cell division

Indexed keywords

ALGA; AVIDIN; CELL DIVISION; CHLOROPLAST; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; N HYDROXYSULFOSUCCINIMIDYL BIOTIN;

ALGAE; CYANIDIOSCHYZON; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; EUKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0032873335     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250050645     Document Type: Article

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