Plus and minus sexual agglutinins from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Plant Cell

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 597-615

  Ferris, Patrick J ^a   Waffenschmidt, Sabine ^b   Umen, James G ^a,c   Lin, Huawen ^a   Lee, Jae Hyeok ^a   Ishida, Koichi ^a   Kubo, Takeaki ^a,d   Lau, Jeffrey ^a   Goodenough, Ursula W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ALGAE; CELLS;

GREEN ALGA; N-TERMINAL DOMAIN; SEXUAL AGGLUTININS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ADHESION; CELLS; PLANTS;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 27944431671     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.028035     Document Type: Article

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