Import of soluble proteins into chloroplasts and potential regulatory mechanisms

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue FEBRUARY, 2017, Pages

  Sjuts, Inga ^a   Soll, Jürgen ^a   Bölter, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Chloroplast; Plastid proteostasis; Protein import; TIC; TOC

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011843602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00168     Document Type: Review

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