Characterization of the preprotein translocon at the outer envelope membrane of chloroplasts by blue native PAGE

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 363-371

  Kikuchi, Shingo ^a   Hirohashi, Toshiya ^a   Nakai, Masato ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blue native PAGE; Chloroplast; Import; Pisum sativum; Plastid; Translocon

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOLOGY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEA; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CHLOROPLASTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PEAS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 33645717179     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcj002     Document Type: Article

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