Chloroplast nitrite uptake is enhanced in Arabidopsis PII mutants

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1061-1066

  Ferrario Méry, Sylvie ^a   Meyer, Christian ^a   Hodges, Michael ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT SCIENCES PARIS SACLAY IPS2   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; AtGLB1 gene; Chloroplasts; NO2 uptake; PII protein; T DNA insertion mutant

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; NITRITE; NITROGEN 15; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PII PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; ISOTOPE LABELING; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHLOROPLASTS; DIURON; MUTATION; NITRITES; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 40849102349     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.02.056     Document Type: Article

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