Intragenic enhancers and suppressors of Phytoene desaturase mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Tran, Phoi T ^a   Sharifi, Marina N ^a,b   Poddar, Subhajit ^a,c   Dent, Rachel M ^a   Niyogi, Krishna K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; AMINO ACID; CAROTENOID; LYSINE; METHIONINE; PDS1 PROTEIN; PDS2 PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; POLYDIOXANONE; PROLINE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL TYPE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL CELL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOENE DESATURASE GENE; POINT MUTATION; REVERTANT; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAROTENOIDS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DNA, PLANT; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865006438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042196     Document Type: Article

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