Cloning and characterisation of MEK1, an Arabidopsis gene encoding a homologue of MAP kinase kinase

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1057-1064

  Morris, Peter C ^a   Guerrier, Danièle ^b   Leung, Jeff ^b   Giraudat, Jérôme ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; MAP kinase kinase; MAP kinase pathway; MEK; Wounding

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MAP2K1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HUMANS; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031472138     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005963222768     Document Type: Article

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