Isolation of putative plant transcriptional coactivators using a modified two-hybrid system incorporating a GFP reporter gene

Plant Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 685-692

  Cormack, Robert S ^a   Hahlbrock, Klaus ^a   Somssich, Imre E ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE ACTIVATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID; IDENTIFICATION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0032104550     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313x.1998.00169.x     Document Type: Article

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