The Sulfolipids 2′-O-Acyl-Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol and Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol Are Absent from a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Mutant Deleted in SQD1

Plant Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 864-874

  Riekhof, Wayne R ^a,b   Ruckle, Michael E ^a   Lydic, Todd A ^a   Sears, Barbara B ^b   Benning, Christoph ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ENZYMES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ROBOTICS;

PHYSIOLOGICAL LEVELS;

LIPIDS;

ALGAE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA; POACEAE;

EID: 0142152446     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.029249     Document Type: Article

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