Modes of interaction between the Arabidopsis Rab protein, Ara4, and its putative regulator molecules revealed by a yeast expression system

Plant Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 341-349

  Ueda, Takashi ^a   Matsuda, Noriyuki ^a,b   Uchimiya, Hirofumi ^b   Nakano, Akihiko ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARA4 PROTEIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CDNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GROWTH; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HYDROPHILICITY; MUTANT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0034102775     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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