ANK6, a mitochondrial ankyrin repeat protein, is required for male-female gamete recognition in Arabidopsis thaliana

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 51, 2010, Pages 22332-22337

  Yu, Feng ^a   Shi, Jia ^a   Zhou, Jiye ^a   Gu, Jianing ^a   Chen, Qihui ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Cheng, Wei ^a   Mao, Dandan ^a   Tian, Lianfu ^a   Buchanan, Bob B ^b   Li, Legong ^c   Chen, Liangbi ^a   Li, Dongping ^a   Luan, Sheng ^b  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

factor; Mitochondrial protein; Ovule development

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN REPEAT PROTEIN 6; DNA; INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR SIG5; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GAMETOPHYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SILIQUE; ZYGOTE;

ANKYRIN REPEAT; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OVULE; POLLEN TUBE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 78650659141     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015911107     Document Type: Article

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