Two novel proteins, MRL7 and its paralog MRL7-L, have essential but functionally distinct roles in chloroplast development and are involved in plastid gene expression regulation in arabidopsis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1017-1030

  Qiao, Jiangwei ^a   Ma, Chonglie ^b   Wimmelbacher, Matthias ^c   Börnke, Frederik ^c   Luo, Meizhong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China National Seed Group Co Ltd   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Chloroplast; MRL7; MRL7 L; Plastid gene expression

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; COTYLEDON; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LETHAL GENE; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; COTYLEDON; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, LETHAL; GENOTYPE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 79958797697     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcr054     Document Type: Article

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