Internal plastid-targeting signal found in a RubisCO small subunit protein of a chlorarachniophyte alga

Plant Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 402-410

  Hirakawa, Yoshihisa ^a   Ishida, Ken Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bipartite targeting sequence; Chlorarachniophyte; Plastid targeting; RubisCO small subunit; Secondary endosymbiosis; Transit peptide

Indexed keywords

BIPARTITE TARGETING SEQUENCE; CHLORARACHNIOPHYTE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; PLASTID TARGETING; RUBISCO; TRANSIT PEPTIDES;

ALGAE; AMINO ACIDS;

PEPTIDES;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RIBULOSE 1,5 BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE SMALL SUBUNIT; RIBULOSE-1,5-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE SMALL-SUBUNIT; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLASTID; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE;

EID: 78149439970     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04334.x     Document Type: Article

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