Functional definition of outer membrane proteins involved in preprotein import into mitochondria

Plant Cell

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3739-3759

  Lister, Ryan ^a,b   Carrie, Chris ^a   Duncan, Owen ^a   Ho, Lois H M ^a   Howell, Katharine A ^a   Murcha, Monika W ^a   Whelan, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL MEMBRANES; PLANT CELL CULTURE;

CHLOROPLAST; METAXIN; PRECURSOR PROTEINS; TWO-HYBRID INTERACTION;

PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 37849017986     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.050534     Document Type: Article

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