Role of histidines in the binding of violaxanthin de-epoxidase to the thylakoid membrane as studied by site-directed mutagenesis

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 337-343

  Gisselsson, Anna ^a,b   Szilágyi, Anna ^a   Åkerlund, Hans Erik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BIACORE AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; MEMBRANES; MUTAGENESIS; PH EFFECTS; PROTONS;

HISTIDINES; LUMENAL PH; SONICATION; THYLAKOIDS;

ENZYMES;

SPINACIA OLERACEA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 7444220226     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2004.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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