The plastid sigma factor SIG1 maintains photosystem I activity via regulated expression of the psaA operon in rice chloroplasts

Plant Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 124-132

  Tozawa, Yuzuru ^a   Teraishi, Masayoshi ^b   Sasaki, Tadamasa ^a   Sonoike, Kintake ^c   Nishiyama, Yoshitaka ^a   Itaya, Mitsuhiro ^d   Miyao, Akio ^e   Hirochika, Hirohiko ^e  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Photosystem I; Rice; RNA polymerase; Sigma factor; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLASTS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTORS;

CHLOROPHYLL; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GENE ENCODING; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTID; RICE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA PRIMERS; MUTATION; OPERON; ORYZA SATIVA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; RNA, MESSENGER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34748918975     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03216.x     Document Type: Article

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