Functional analysis of Arabidopsis genes involved in mitochondrial iron-sulfur cluster assembly

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-240

  Frazzon, Ana Paula Guedes ^a,b   Ramirez, Melissa V ^a   Warek, Ujwala ^a,d   Balk, Janneke ^c   Frazzon, Jeverson ^a,b   Dean, Dennis R ^a   Winkel, Brenda S J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Philip Morris USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fe S Cluster assembly; Cysteine desulfurase activity; Intracellular localization; Mitochondria; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE DESULFURASE ACTIVITY; INTRACELLULAR LOCALIZATION; TRANSGENIC PLANTS;

IRON; PLANT CELL CULTURE; SULFUR;

GENES;

AMINOTRANSFERASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; ISU1 PROTEIN, A THALIANA; ISU2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ISU3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NFS1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSAMINASES;

CELLS; GENES; IRON; SULFUR;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34247472498     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-007-9147-x     Document Type: Article

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