Knock-out of a putative transporter results in altered blue-light signalling in Chlamydomonas

Plant Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 577-587

  Dame, Gregory ^a   Gloeckner, Gernot ^b   Beck Christoph, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Blue light signalling; Constitutive activation; Gametogenesis; Transporter knock out

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CLONING; GENES; IRRADIATION; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN; RNA;

DIFFERRNTIAL SPLICING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIGHT; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0036736345     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01379.x     Document Type: Article

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