Characterization of Ricinus communis phloem profilin, RcPRO1

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 719-730

  Schobert, Christian ^a,c,d   Gottschalk, Maren ^c   Kovar, David R ^b   Staiger, Christopher J ^b   Yoo, Byun Chun ^a   Lucas, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Assimilate transport; Cytoskeleton; P protein; Ricinus communis; Sieve tube exudate

Indexed keywords

ASSAY; CLONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MAIZE; PHLOEM; PROFILIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RCPRO1;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CASTOR BEAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HYPOCOTYL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT COMPONENTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROFILINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034011787     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006391508429     Document Type: Article

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