Glycoengineering of cyanobacterial thylakoid membranes for future studies on the role of glycolipids in photosynthesis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1766-1778

  Hölzl, Georg ^a   Zähringer, Ulrich ^b   Warnecke, Dirk ^a   Heinz, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chloroflexus aurantiacus; Deinococcus radiodurans; Galactolipid; Glycosyltransferase; Synechococcus

Indexed keywords

GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNECHOCOCCUS; THYLAKOID;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GLYCOLIPIDS; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNECHOCOCCUS; THYLAKOIDS;

BETA (BEET); CHLOROFLEXUS; CHLOROFLEXUS AURANTIACUS; CYANOBACTERIA; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 6301;

EID: 28544442476     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pci189     Document Type: Article

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