The chlamydomonas chloroplast HLP protein is required for nucleoid organization and genome maintenance

Molecular Plant

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1223-1232

  Karcher, Daniel ^a   Köster, Dietrich ^a   Schadach, Anne ^a   Klevesath, Anja ^a   Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Chloroplast; DNA binding protein; Genome maintenance; HLP; Nucleoid

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 71249119635     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssp083     Document Type: Article

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