Distinctive organization of genes for light-harvesting proteins in the cryptophyte alga Rhodomonas

Gene

Volumn 369, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 72-79

  Broughton, M J ^a   Howe, C J ^b   Hiller, R G ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll binding protein; Divergent genes; Phycoerythrin; Tat pathway; Thylakoid protein import; Transit peptide

Indexed keywords

PHYCOERYTHRIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOPHYTA; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOMONAS; THYLAKOID MEMBRANE;

ALGAE; ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; RHODOMONAS (CRYPTOPHYTA);

EID: 33644637119     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.10.026     Document Type: Article

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