A conserved His-Asp signal response regulator-like gene in Heterosigma akashiwo chloroplasts

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 645-655

  Jacobs, Michael A ^a   Connell, Laurie ^a,b   Cattolico, Rose Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Heterosigma; His Asp; Response regulator; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE; CHLOROPLAST; DNA BINDING; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENETIC REGULATION; INTRON; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALGAE; ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ACID; CELL CYCLE; CHLOROPLASTS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AKASHIWO; ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; HETEROSIGMA; HETEROSIGMA AKASHIWO; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033227438     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006394925182     Document Type: Article

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