PROTEIN TARGETING TO STARCH Is Required for Localising GRANULE-BOUND STARCH SYNTHASE to Starch Granules and for Normal Amylose Synthesis in Arabidopsis

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Seung, David ^a   Soyk, Sebastian ^a   Coiro, Mario ^a   Maier, Benjamin A ^a   Eicke, Simona ^a   Zeeman, Samuel C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOSE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GRANULE BOUND STARCH SYNTHASE PROTEIN; PROTEIN TARGETING TO STARCH PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STARCH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; AMYLOPECTIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; STARCH SYNTHASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREEDING; CELL GRANULE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

AMYLOPECTIN; AMYLOSE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BREEDING; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; STARCH SYNTHASE;

EID: 84924081191     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002080     Document Type: Article

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