The light-regulated Arabidopsis bZIP transcription factor gene ATB2 encodes a protein with an unusually long leucine zipper domain

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 171-178

  Rook, Fred ^a,b   Weisbeek, Peter ^a   Smeekens, Sjef ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; bZIP transcription factor; Light regulated gene expression

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHLOROPLASTS; DARKNESS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PLANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032080565     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005964327725     Document Type: Article

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