Molecular characterization and expression analysis of chloroplast protein import components in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Yan, Jianmin ^a,b   Campbell, James H ^c   Glick, Bernard R ^b   Smith, Matthew D ^c   Liang, Yan ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT TISSUE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROPLAST; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; INTRONS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN;

EID: 84899681141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095088     Document Type: Article

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