Functional dissection of Arabidopsis COP1 reveals specific roles of its three structural modules in light control of seedling development

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 5577-5587

  Torii, Keiko U ^a,b   McNellis, Timothy W ^a,c   Deng, Xing Wang ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Coiled coil; Photomorphogenesis; RING finger; WD 40 repeats

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DIMERIZATION; HYPOCOTYL; LIGHT; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0032189950     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.19.5577     Document Type: Article

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