C1- and R-dependent expression of the maize Bz1 gene requires sequences with homology to mammalian myb and myc binding sites

Plant Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 317-325

  Roth, Bradley A ^a,b   Goff, Stephen A ^a,c   Klein, Theodore M ^a,d   Fromm, Michael E ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^e MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; TRANS ACTIVATORS; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE MYC; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, MYC; GENES, STRUCTURAL, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOGENES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0026116040     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.3.3.317     Document Type: Article

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