Tetracycline-dependent activation of an upstream promoter reveals transcriptional interference between tandem genes within T-DNA in tomato

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 687-692

  Thompson, Andrew J ^a   Myatt, Sarah C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hygromycin; Polyadenylation site; Tetracycline inducible gene expression; Tomato; Transcriptional interference

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; HYGROMYCIN B KINASE; HYGROMYCIN-B KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; T DNA; T-DNA; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE ENCODING TRANSPOSON REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE-ENCODING TRANSPOSON REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; TOMATO;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GLUCURONIDASE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0031194042     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005888616748     Document Type: Article

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