An archaebacterial topoisomerase homolog not present in other eukaryotes is indispensable for cell proliferation of plants

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 1787-1791

  Hartung, Frank ^a   Angelis, Karel J ^b   Meister, Armin ^a   Schubert, Ingo ^a   Melzer, Michael ^a   Puchta, Holger ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARCHAEA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037108321     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01218-6     Document Type: Article

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