The role of glutathione in photosynthetic organisms: Emerging functions for glutaredoxins and glutathionylation

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2008, Pages 143-166

  Rouhier, Nicolas ^a   Lemaire, Stéphane D ^b   Jacquot, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

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

Author keywords

Cysteine; Iron sulfur; Oxidative stress; Redox; Signaling

Indexed keywords

GLUTAREDOXIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CELL FRACTIONATION; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

GLUTAREDOXINS; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 42949085825     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.59.032607.092811     Document Type: Review

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