Molecular and functional properties of highly purified transcriptionally active chromosomes from spinach chloroplasts

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 188-195

  Krause, Kirsten ^a,b   Krupinska, Karin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GEL FILTRATION; GENE PRODUCT; HEPARIN; PRECIPITATION; PROTAMINE SULFATE; RNA POLYMERASE; SPINACH; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0034089637     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2000.100211.x     Document Type: Article

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