Characterization of a NifS-like chloroplast protein from arabidopsis. Implications for its role in sulfur and selenium metabolism

Plant Physiology

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1309-1318

  Pilon Smits, Elizabeth A H ^a   Garifullina, Gulnara F ^a   Abdel Ghany, Salah ^a   Kato, Shin Ichiro ^a   Mihara, Hisaaki ^a   Hale, Kerry L ^a   Burkhead, Jason L ^a   Esaki, Nobuyoshi ^a   Kurihara, Tatsuo ^a   Pilon, Marinus ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CLONING; DIMERS; DNA; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; SELENIUM; TISSUE;

LOCALIZATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036853042     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.102.010280     Document Type: Article

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