Intron-exon structure and gene copy number of a gene encoding for a membrane-intrinsic light-harvesting polypeptide of the red alga Galdieria sulphuraria

Gene

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 257-265

  Marquardt, Jürgen ^a   Wans, Stefan ^a   Rhiel, Erhard ^c   Randolf, Anke ^b   Krumbein, Wolfgang E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Chlorophyll binding protein; Light harvesting complex; Photosystem I; Rhodophyta

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA LIBRARY; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RED ALGA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALGAE, RED; ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, STRUCTURAL; INTRONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

GALDIERIA SULPHURARIA; PORPHYRIDIUM CRUENTUM;

EID: 0034687068     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00332-2     Document Type: Article

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