Mechanisms of protein import and routing in chloroplasts

Current Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2004, Pages

  Jarvis, Paul ^a   Robinson, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST; GENETICS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 11144321346     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.11.049     Document Type: Review

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