Determining the Location of an Arabidopsis Chloroplast Protein Using In Vitro Import Followed by Fractionation and Alkaline Extraction

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 774, Issue , 2011, Pages 339-350

  Chu, Chiung Chih ^a   Li, Hsou min ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alkaline extraction; Chloroplast; Fractionation; Protein import; Sucrose gradient centrifugation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

ALKALI; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHLOROPLAST PROTEIN; METHIONINE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SUCROSE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; FRACTIONATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEEDLING;

ALKALIES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHLOROPLAST PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; METHIONINE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEEDLING; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SUCROSE;

EID: 80052919029     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-234-2_20     Document Type: Chapter

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