Nuclear localization of the Arabidopsis APETALA3 and PISTILLATA homeotic gene products depends on their simultaneous expression

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1812-1821

  McGonigle, Brian ^a,b   Bouhidel, Karim ^a,c   Irish, Vivian F ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

APETALA3; Arabidopsis; nuclear localization signals; PISTILLATA; transcription factors

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GENE PRODUCT; HYBRID PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; HOMEOBOX; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029779019     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.14.1812     Document Type: Article

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