The bifunctional LKR/SDH locus of plants also encodes a highly active monofunctional lysine-ketoglutarate reductase using a polyadenylation signal located within an intron

Plant Physiology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 147-154

  Tang, Guiliang ^a   Zhu, Xiaohong ^a   Gakiere, Bertrand ^a   Levanony, Hanna ^a   Kahana, Anat ^a   Galili, Gad ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTTON; ENZYMES; GENES; POLYPEPTIDES; RNA;

CATABOLISM;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036739759     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.005660     Document Type: Article

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