The transcriptional activator Opaque-2 controls the expression of a cytosolic form of pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase-1 in maize endosperms

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 647-654

  Maddaloni, Massimo ^a   Donini, Giovanna ^a   Balconi, Carlotta ^a   Rizzi, Eduardo ^a   Gallusci, Philippe ^c   Forlani, Fabio ^a   Lohmer, Stephan ^b   Thompson, Richard ^b   Salamini, Francesco ^b   Motto, Mario ^a  

^a Istituto Sperimentale per la Cerealicoltura   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Vegetale Grenoble   (France)

Author keywords

Amino acid biosynthesis; Carbon partitioning; Endosperm; General control; Opaque 2 locus

Indexed keywords

PYRUVATE PHOSPHATE DIKINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOPLASTS; PYRUVATE, ORTHOPHOSPHATE DIKINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; ZEA MAYS;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0029917687     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050117     Document Type: Article

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