Thylakoid targeting of Tat passenger proteins shows no δpH dependence in vivo

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 807-815

  Finazzi, Giovanni ^b   Chasen, Claudia ^a   Wollman, Francis André ^a   De Vitry, Catherine ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

pH; Chloroplast; Protein import; Rieske protein; Tat pathway

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYLAKOID MEMBRANE; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROME B6F COMPLEX; HORDEUM; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IONOPHORES; MUTATION; NIGERICIN; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; THYLAKOIDS;

CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EMBRYOPHYTA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037450644     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg081     Document Type: Article

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