Characterization of apcC, the nuclear gene for the phycobilisome core linker polypeptide Lc7.8 from the glaucocystophyte alga Cyanophora paradoxa. Import of the precursor into isolated cyanelles and integration of the mature protein into intact phycobilisomes

Current Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 132-137

  Steiner, Jürgen M ^a   Pompe, Johannes A ^a   Löffelhardt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Vienna Biocenter   (Austria)

Author keywords

ApcC; Cyanelles; Lc7.8; Phycobilisomes; Protein translocation

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHYCOBILIPROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYCOBILISOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STROMA; THYLAKOID MEMBRANE;

ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOPHORA; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYCOBILISOMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOPHORA PARADOXA; EUKARYOTA; GLAUCOCYSTOPHYCEAE; PROKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 0344740558     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-003-0433-0     Document Type: Article

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