The motors of protein import into chloroplasts

Plant Signaling and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1397-1401

  Shi, Lan Xin ^a   Theg, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ATPase; Chloroplast protein import; Hsp93; Physcomitrella patens; Stromal Hsp70; Stromal motor complex; Tic; Toc; Transit peptide; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

PHYSCOMITRELLA; PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS;

EID: 80052576118     PISSN: 15592316     EISSN: 15592324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/psb.6.9.16916     Document Type: Article

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