Sequence motifs in transit peptides act as independent functional units and can be transferred to new sequence contexts

Plant Physiology

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 471-484

  Lee, Dong Wook ^a   Woo, Seungjin ^a   Geem, Kyoung Rok ^a   Hwang, Inhwan ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOPLAST;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYLL BINDING PROTEINS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOPLASTS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

EID: 84940937596     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00842     Document Type: Article

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