Nitrate reductase structure, function and regulation: Bridging the gap between biochemistry and physiology

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1999, Pages 277-303

  Campbell, Wilbur H ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

14 3 3 binding protein; 3 D structure; Enzymology; Molybdopterin cofactor; Protein phosphorylation; Regulation; Site directed mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; FUNGI;

EID: 0039441128     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.50.1.277     Document Type: Article

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