Hydrophobic residues within the predicted N-terminal amphiphilic α-helix of a plant mitochondrial targeting presequence play a major role in in vivo import

Plant Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 539-549

  Duby, G ^a   Oufattole, M ^a   Boutry, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amphiphilic helix; GFP; Import; Mitochondrial presequence; Plant; Yeast

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; F1 ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE SYNTHASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MITOCHONDRION; POINT MUTATION; PROTOPLAST; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CELLS; ENZYMES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MUTAGENESIS; TOBACCO;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN (GFP);

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LEUCINE; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE DELETION; TOBACCO; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034796437     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2001.01098.x     Document Type: Article

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