Tomato EF-Tsmt, a functional mitochondrial translation elongation factor from higher plants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 411-422

  Benichou, Mohamed ^a,d   Li, Zhengguo ^a   Tournier, Barthélémy ^a   Chaves, Ana ^a   Zegzouti, Hicham ^a   Jauneau, Alain ^b   Delalande, Corinne ^a   Latché, Alain ^a   Bouzayen, Mondher ^a   Spremulli, Linda L ^c   Pech, Jean Claude ^a  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b Signalisation Cell et Biotech Veg ^*  (France)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Elongation factor; Nucleotide exchange; Plant mitochondria; Tomato; Translation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHYLENE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PROTEINS; TOBACCO;

HOMOLOGY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ELONGATION FACTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR TS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; POLYURIDYLIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POLY U; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELIANTHUS; LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 9144266296     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:PLAN.0000006943.23747.7d     Document Type: Article

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