Iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis in chloroplasts. Involvement of the scaffold protein CpIscA

Plant Physiology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 161-172

  Abdel Ghany, Salah E ^a   Ye, Hong ^a   Garifullina, Gulnara F ^a   Zhang, Lihong ^a   Pilon Smits, Elizabeth A H ^a   Pilon, Marinus ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

IMMUNOBLOTING; IRON CLUSTERS; PLANT PROTEINS;

PIGMENTS;

IRON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENT; PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CPISCA PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; IRON; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; SULFUR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; IRON; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFUR;

EID: 21444452970     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.058602     Document Type: Article

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