Border control: Selectivity of chloroplast protein import and regulation at the TOC-complex

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Demarsy, Emilie ^a   Lakshmanan, Ashok M ^a   Kessler, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Plastids; Post translational modifications; Preproteins; Protein import; TOC complex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908211170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00483     Document Type: Review

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