Regulated expression of plant tRNA genes by the prokaryotic tet and lac repressors

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 417-424

  Ulmasov, Barbara ^a   Capone, John ^b   Folk, William ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lac repressor; Plant tRNA gene expression; Tet repressor; Translational suppression

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; LACI PROTEIN, BACTERIA; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SERINE TRANSFER RNA; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE ENCODING TRANSPOSON REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE-ENCODING TRANSPOSON REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN TRANSFER RNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CARROT; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATOR GENE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTOPLAST;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DAUCUS CAROTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTOPLASTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; RNA, TRANSFER, SER; RNA, TRANSFER, TRP; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TETRACYCLINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DAUCUS CAROTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031282357     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005819007549     Document Type: Article

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