Glutamyl-tRNA mediates a switch in RNA polymerase use during chloroplast biogenesis

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 545-550

  Hanaoka, Mitsumasa ^a   Kanamaru, Kengo ^a,b   Fujiwara, Makoto ^a   Takahashi, Hideo ^a,c   Tanaka, Kan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplast biogenesis; Glutamyl tRNA; NEP; PEP; SIG2

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID TRANSFER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGHER PLANT; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 22144433358     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400411     Document Type: Article

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