Early steps in plastid evolution: Current ideas and controversies

BioEssays

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1219-1232

  Bodył, Andrzej ^a   Mackiewicz, Paweł ^a   Stiller, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonic anhydrases; Endosymbiosis; Evolution; Plastids; Protein import

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PROTEIN TIC; PROTEIN TOC; TRANSLOCON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUKARYOTE; HIGHER PLANT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASTID; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ARABIDOPSIS; CARBONIC ANHYDRASES; CELL MEMBRANE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GLYCOSYLATION; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEPTIDES; PHOSPHATES; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SYMBIOSIS;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 70549088079     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900073     Document Type: Review

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