A Defective Signal Peptide in a 19-kD α-Zein Protein Causes the Unfolded Protein Response and an Opaque Endosperm Phenotype in the Maize De*-B30 Mutant

Plant Physiology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 380-387

  Kim, Cheol Soo ^a,d   Hunter, Brenda G ^a   Kraft, Jeffery ^a   Boston, Rebecca S ^b   Yans, Sarah ^c   Jung, Rudolf ^c   Larkins, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^d Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CLONING; DNA; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0442283056     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.031310     Document Type: Article

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