Targeted inactivation of the smallest plastid genome-encoded open reading frame reveals a novel and essential subunit of the cytochrome b6f complex

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 5834-5842

  Hager, Martin ^a   Biehler, Klaus ^a   Illerhaus, Jürgen ^a   Ruf, Stephanie ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Cytochrome b6f; Photosynthesis; Plastid transformation; ycf6

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME B6F; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROME B6F COMPLEX; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE TARGETING; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, TOXIC; PLASTIDS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0033229813     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.21.5834     Document Type: Article

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