Streamlined construction of the cyanobacterial CO2-fixing organelle via protein domain fusions for use in plant synthetic biology

Plant Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2637-2644

  Gonzalez Esquer, C Raul ^a   Shubitowski, Tyler B ^a   Kerfeld, Cheryl A ^a,b,c,d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; RBCL PROTEIN, PLASTID; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

CELL ORGANELLE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANELLES; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84943791509     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.00329     Document Type: Article

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