Accumulation of plastocyanin mRNA lacking 5' region in the green alga Pediastrum boryanum grown under copper-deficient conditions

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-41

  Nakamura, Masaki ^a,b   Yoshizaki, Fuminori ^a   Sugimura, Yasutomo ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CDNA sequence; Copper regulation; Green alga; MRNA accumulation; Pediastrum boryanum; Plastocyanin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COPPER DEFICIENCY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOCHROME C; MESSENGER RNA; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASTOCYANIN; RESIDUE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; PEDIASTRUM BORYANUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0033961222     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/41.1.33     Document Type: Article

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