The multisubunit chloroplast RNA polymerase A from mustard (Sinapis alba L.): Integration of a prokaryotic core into a larger complex with organelle- specific functions

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 253-261

  Pfannschmidt, Thomas ^b   Ogrzewalla, Karsten ^d   Baginsky, Sacha ^c   Sickmann, Albert ^d   Meyer, Helmut E ^d   Link, Gerhard ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Chloroplast transcription; Phosphorylation; Plastid rpo genes; Rifampicin; RNA polymerase subunits

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSTARD PLANT; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RIFAMPIN; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0033962832     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.00991.x     Document Type: Article

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