HCF152, an Arabidopsis RNA binding pentatricopeptide repeat protein involved in the processing of chloroplast psbB-psbT-psbH-petB-petD RNAs

Plant Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1480-1495

  Meierhoff, Karin ^a   Felder, Susanne ^a   Nakamura, Takahiro ^b   Bechtold, Nicole ^c   Schuster, Gadi ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERS; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; RNA;

CHLOROPLASTS;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0038457836     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.010397     Document Type: Article

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