The diverse roles of ubiquitin and the 26S proteasome in the life of plants

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 948-958

  Sullivan, James A ^a   Shirasu, Ken ^b   Deng, Xing Wang ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; BRASSINOSTEROID; ETHYLENE; GIBBERELLIN; ISOPROTEIN; JASMONIC ACID; LIGASE; PHYTOHORMONE; PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN;

BIODIVERSITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

HYDROLYSIS; LIGHT; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLANTS; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; UBIQUITIN;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0344441434     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1228     Document Type: Review

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