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Isolation of a cDNA encoding chloroplast ferrochelatase from Arabidopsis thaliana by functional complementation of a yeast mutant.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 6 May 1994
Smith A G, Santana M A, Wallace-Cook A D, Roper J M, Labbe-Bois R
Abstract excerpt
Ferrochelatase catalyzes the insertion of ferrous iron into protoporphyrin IX to form protoheme. It is located in the mitochondria in all eukaryotes and is also found in plastids in plants. Although it has been purified from animals and microorganisms, and genes for it isolated and characterized, very little is known about plant ferrochelatases. We have isolated a cDNA for ferrochelatase from the higher plant...
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