Cloning and characterization of a class II DNA photolyase from Chlamydomonas

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1063-1071

  Petersen, Jason L ^a   Lang, Darin W ^a   Small, Gary D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Chloroplast; DNA photolyase; DNA repair

Indexed keywords

ALGA GENETICS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTO-LYASE; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033180599     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006279720960     Document Type: Article

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