Plastid state- and light-dependent regulation of the expression of nucleus-encoded genes for chloroplast proteins in the flagellate Euglena gracilis

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 433-441

  Vacula, R ^a   Steiner, J M ^b   Krajcovic J ^a   Ebringer, L ^a   Loffelhardt, W ^b  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME C-552; CYTOCHROME C552; CYTOCHROME C553; FUCOXANTHIN , CHLOROPHYLL A C CONTAINING PROTEIN; FUCOXANTHIN-, CHLOROPHYLL A-C-CONTAINING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PORPHOBILINOGEN DEAMINASE; PROTEIN; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; EUGLENA GRACILIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LIGHT; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLASTID; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; EUGLENA GRACILIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROXYMETHYLBILANE SYNTHASE; LIGHT; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; PROTEINS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0041331458     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02814435     Document Type: Article

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