Effects of selective inactivation of individual genes for low-molecular-mass subunits on the assembly of photosystem II, as revealed by chloroplast transformation: The psbEFLJ operon in Nicotiana tabacum

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 268, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 699-710

  Swiatek, M ^a   Regel, R E ^a   Meurer, J ^a   Wanner, G ^a   Pakrasi, H B ^b   Ohad, I ^c   Herrmann, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chloroplast transformation; Cytochrome b559; Low mass subunits; Photosystem II assembly; psbL and psbJ mutants

Indexed keywords

APOPROTEIN; CYTOCHROME B; MONOMER; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CHLOROPLAST; CODING; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTANT; NICOTIANA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOLUBILIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THYLAKOID; WILD TYPE;

EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TABACUM;

EID: 0037361664     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-002-0791-1     Document Type: Article

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