Insertional mutagenesis in a homologue of a Pi transporter gene confers arsenate resistance on Chlamydomonas

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 597-606

  Kobayashi, Isao ^a   Fujiwara, Shoko ^a   Shimogawara, Kosuke ^b   Kaise, Toshikazu ^a   Usuda, Hideaki ^b   Tsuzuki, Mikio ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arsenate resistance; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Pi transporter; Pi uptake

Indexed keywords

ALGAL PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ARSENATES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHLAMYDOMONAS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DRUG RESISTANCE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHOSPHOLIPID TRANSFER PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0038303346     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg081     Document Type: Article

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