Organization, Developmental Dynamics, and Evolution of Plastid Nucleoids

International Review of Cytology

Volumn 232, Issue , 2003, Pages 217-262

  Sato, Naoki ^a   Terasawa, Kimihiro ^a   Miyajima, Kazunori ^a   Kabeya, Yukihiro ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplast evolution; DNA polymerase; DNA binding protein; Plastid genomic machinery; Plastid nucleoid; RNA polymerase; Sulfite reductase

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DNA POLYMERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASTID DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SULFITE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PLANT CELL; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 0346887203     PISSN: 00747696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7696(03)32006-6     Document Type: Article

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