Protein import into chloroplasts: The Tic complex and its regulation

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Cell Research

Volumn 1803, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 740-747

  Kovács Bogdán, Erika ^a   Soll, Jürgen ^a   Bölter, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcium calmodulin; Chloroplast; Endosymbiosis; Protein import; Redox regulation; Tic complex

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CHAPERONIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 93; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; TRANSLOCON; TRANSLOCON AT THE INNER ENVELOPE MEMBRANE OF CHLOROPLAST; TRANSLOCON AT THE INNER ENVELOPE MEMBRANE OF CHLOROPLAST 110; TRANSLOCON AT THE INNER ENVELOPE MEMBRANE OF CHLOROPLAST 20; TRANSLOCON AT THE INNER ENVELOPE MEMBRANE OF CHLOROPLAST 21; TRANSLOCON AT THE INNER ENVELOPE MEMBRANE OF CHLOROPLAST 32; TRANSLOCON AT THE INNER ENVELOPE MEMBRANE OF CHLOROPLAST 40; TRANSLOCON AT THE INNER ENVELOPE MEMBRANE OF CHLOROPLAST 55; TRANSLOCON AT THE INNER ENVELOPE MEMBRANE OF CHLOROPLAST 62; TRANSLOCON AT THE OUTER ENVELOPE MEMBRANE OF CHLOROPLAST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARABIDOPSIS; BINDING SITE; CHLOROPLAST; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CALCIUM; CHLOROPLASTS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

EID: 77953022036     PISSN: 01674889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2010.01.015     Document Type: Review

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