Nuclear Targeting of Methyl-Recycling Enzymes in Arabidopsis thaliana Is Mediated by Specific Protein Interactions

Molecular Plant

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 231-248

  Lee, Sanghyun ^a   Doxey, Andrew C ^b   McConkey, Brendan J ^a   Moffatt, Barbara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adenosine kinase; nuclear targeting; protein docking; protein modeling; protein motif analysis; S adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase; subcellular localization; Transmethylation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84863066260     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssr083     Document Type: Article

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