Expression of the recombinant bacterial outer surface protein A in tobacco chloroplasts leads to thylakoid localization and loss of photosynthesis

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 5749-5758

  Hennig, Anna ^b   Bonfig, Katharina ^b   Roitsch, Thomas ^b   Warzecha, Heribert ^a,b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lyme disease; Outer surface protein A; Plant vaccine; Protein palmitoylation; Thylakoid targeting

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; FLUORESCENCE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GREENHOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALMITOYLATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; THYLAKOID; TOBACCO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHLOROPLASTS; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THYLAKOIDS; TOBACCO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EUKARYOTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 35448994846     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06095.x     Document Type: Article

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