A nucleus-encoded chloroplast protein regulated by iron availability governs expression of the photosystem i subunit PsaA in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Plant Physiology

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1527-1540

  Lefebvre Legendre, Linnka ^a   Choquet, Yves ^b   Kuras, Richard ^b   Loubéry, Sylvain ^a   Douchi, Damien ^a   Goldschmidt Clermont, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APICOMPLEXA; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII;

CHLOROPLAST PROTEIN; IRON; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PLANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYSTEM I; THYLAKOID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; IRON; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLANT PROTEINS; THYLAKOIDS;

EID: 84926153251     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.253906     Document Type: Article

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