The steady-state level of Mg-protoporphyrin IX is not a determinant of plastid-to-nucleus signaling in Arabidopsis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 15184-15189

  Mochizuki, Nobuyoshi ^a   Tanaka, Ryouichi ^b   Tanaka, Ayumi ^b   Masuda, Tatsuru ^c   Nagatani, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Retrograde signal; Tetrapyrrole

Indexed keywords

ESTER DERIVATIVE; MG PROTOPORPHYRIN IX; PROTOPORPHYRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HERBICIDE; NORFLURAZON; PROTOPORPHYRIN IX MONOMETHYL ESTER; PYRIDAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BAM3 GENE; CA1 GENE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMA1 GENE; HYPOTHESIS; LHCB1 GENE; MODEL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RBCS GENE; STEADY STATE; CELL NUCLEUS; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HERBICIDES; MUTATION; PLASTIDS; PROTOPORPHYRINS; PYRIDAZINES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 54449086394     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803245105     Document Type: Article

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