The arabidopsis chloroplastic NifU-like protein CnfU, which can act as an iron-sulfur cluster scaffold protein, is required for biogenesis of ferredoxin and photosystem I

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 993-1007

  Yabe, Toshiki ^a   Morimoto, Kozo ^a   Kikuchi, Shingo ^a   Nishio, Kazuaki ^a   Terashima, Ichiro ^a   Nakai, Masato ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; DIMERS; ELECTRONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRON COMPOUNDS; PROTEINS; SULFUR; TISSUE;

CHLOROPLAST; STROMA;

PLANT CELL CULTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 1842762970     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.020511     Document Type: Article

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