Genome-wide survey and expression analysis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii U-box E3 ubiquitin ligases (CrPUBs) reveal a functional lipid metabolism module

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Luo, Qiulan ^a   Li, Yajun ^a   Wang, Wenquan ^a   Fei, Xiaowen ^b   Deng, Xiaodong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HAINAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; U BOX E3 UBIQUITIN LIGASE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT PROTEIN;

ALGAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; MICROALGA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENICS; UBIQUITINATION; UPREGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ORYZA; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ORYZA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84926288192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122600     Document Type: Article

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