A molecular-genetic study of the Arabidopsis Toc75 gene family

Plant Physiology

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 715-733

  Baldwin, Amy ^a,b   Wardle, Anthony ^a   Patel, Ramesh ^a   Dudley, Penny ^a   Park, Soon Ki ^a,c   Twell, David ^a   Inoue, Kentaro ^b   Jarvis, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR-GENETICS; PROTEIN TRANSLOCATION CHANNEL;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOCHEMISTRY; EMBRYOS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MEMBRANES; PLANTS; PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; PISUM SATIVUM;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; TOC75 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT SEED; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 23944495607     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.063289     Document Type: Review

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