HSF3, a new heat shock factor from Arabidopsis thaliana, derepresses the heat shock response and confers thermotolerance when overexpressed in transgenic plants

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 269-278

  Prandl R ^a   Hinderhofer, K ^a   Eggers Schumacher, G ^a   Schoffl F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Heat shock factor; Thermotolerance; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE FUSION; GENE ISOLATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0031842946     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050731     Document Type: Article

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