The arabidopsis profilin gene family: Evidence for an ancient split between constitutive and pollen-specific profilin genes

Plant Physiology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-126

  Huang, Shurong ^b   McDowell, John M ^c   Weise, Michael J ^a   Meagher, Richard B ^a  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ALLERGEN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; PRF1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PRF2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PRF3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PRF4 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PROFILIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION; GENES, PLANT; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROFILINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0030138167     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.111.1.115     Document Type: Article

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