Arginine degradation by arginase in mitochondria of soybean seedling cotyledons

Planta

Volumn 210, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 652-658

  Goldraij, Ariel ^a,b   Polacco, Joe C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Fundacion para Investigaciones Biologicas Aplicadas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Arginase (location, activity); Arginine (uptake, degradation); Glycine (N reserve); Mitochondrion

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARGINASE; ARGININE; CELL FRACTIONATION; COTYLEDON; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DEGRADATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GERMINATION; MITOCHONDRION; SEEDLING; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 0034068809     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004250050056     Document Type: Article

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