Alternative oxidase: What information can protein sequence comparisons give us?

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 328-341

  McDonald, Allison E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE; AMINO ACID; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL MEMBRANE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

LILIUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SAUROMATUM GUTTATUM;

EID: 70450231780     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2009.01242.x     Document Type: Article

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