Mitochondrial serine acetyltransferase functions as a pacemaker of cysteine synthesis in plant cells

Plant Physiology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1055-1067

  Haas, Florian H ^a   Heeg, Corinna ^a   Queiroz, Rafael ^b   Bauer, Andrea ^b   Wirtz, Markus ^a   Hell, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 57749093980     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.108.125237     Document Type: Article

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