The function and diversity of plastid protein import pathways: A multilane GTPase highway into plastids

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Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 248-257

  Kessler, Felix ^a   Schnell, Danny J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; GTPase; Plastid; Protein import; Translocon

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN TIC; PROTEIN TOC; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CHLOROPLAST; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOSOL; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST CELL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERIAL ENDOSYMBIOTIC THEORY;

FORECASTING; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 33644637941     PISSN: 13989219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2005.00382.x     Document Type: Review

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