Cloning and characterization of the chloroplast elongation factor EF-Tu cDNA of Oryza sativa L.

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 484-490

  Lee, Jeong Hwan ^a   Lee, Joong Won ^a   Chung, Yong Yoon ^a   Paek, Kyung Hee ^a   Shin, Jeong Sheop ^a   Yun, Choong Hyo ^b   Kim, Jeong Kook ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Functional Food and Nutrition Division   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Elongation Factor Tu; Gene Families; Rice; Signature Regions

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; RICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR TU; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033621206     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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