Footprinting of the spinach nitrite reductase gene promoter reveals the preservation of nitrate regulatory elements between fungi and higher plants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 465-476

  Rastogi, Rajeev ^a,b   Bate, Nicholas J ^a   Sivasankar, Sobhana ^a   Rothstein, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

NIT2 regulatory protein; Nitrate induction; Nitrite reductase; Promoter analysis

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; NITRITE REDUCTASE; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SPINACH; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; GLUCURONIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NITRITE REDUCTASES; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPINACIA OLERACEA; TOBACCO;

EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 0031170797     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005842812321     Document Type: Article

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