Cellular levels of glutamyl-tRNA reductase and glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase do not control chlorophyll synthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Plant Physiology

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 389-396

  Nogaj, Luiza A ^a   Srivastava, Alaka ^a,b   Van Lis, Robert ^a,c   Beale, Samuel I ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

GLUTAMATE 1-SEMIALDEHYDE (GSA); IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLAR BASIS;

ENZYMES;

CHLOROPHYLLS; ENZYMES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; CHLOROPHYLL; GLUTAMATE 1 SEMIALDEHYDE 2,1 AMINOMUTASE; GLUTAMATE-1-SEMIALDEHYDE 2,1-AMINOMUTASE; GLUTAMYL TRNA REDUCTASE; MESSENGER RNA; MUTASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DARKNESS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYLL; DARKNESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; LIGHT; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 29144521415     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.067009     Document Type: Review

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