Characterization and subcellular localization of a small GTP-binding protein (Ara-4) from Arabidopsis: Conditional expression under control of the promoter of the gene for heat-shock protein HSP81-1

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 250, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 533-539

  Ueda, Takashi ^a   Anai, Toyoaki ^b   Tsukaya, Hirokazu ^a   Hirata, Aiko ^a   Uchimiya, Hirofumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Heat shock protein; Intracellular transport; Rab YPT; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSOL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 0029921497     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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