MRL1, a conserved pentatricopeptide repeat protein, is required for stabilization of rbcl mrna in chlamydomonas and arabidopsis

Plant Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 234-248

  Johnson, Xenie ^a   Wostrikoff, Katia ^a,b   Finazzi, Giovanni ^a   Kuras, Richard ^a   Schwarz, Christian ^c   Bujaldon, Sandrine ^a   Nickelsen, Joerg ^c   Stern, David B ^b   Wollman, Francis André ^a   Vallon, Olivier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

EID: 77950363131     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.109.066266     Document Type: Article

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