Redundant proteolytic mechanisms process seed storage proteins in the absence of seed-type members of the vacuolar processing enzyme family of cysteine proteases

Plant Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2863-2882

  Gruis, Darren ^a   Selinger, David A ^a   Curran, Jill M ^a   Jung, Rudolf ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; GENES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYPEPTIDES; PROTEINS; SEED;

MUTATIONS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0036845735     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.005009     Document Type: Article

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