Two-Component Response Regulators from Arabidopsis thaliana Contain a Putative DNA-Binding Motif

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1232-1239

  Sakai, Hiroe ^a   Aoyama, Takashi ^a   Bono, Hidemasa ^a   Oka, Atsuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Response regulator; Signal transduction; Transcription factor; Two component regulatory system

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARR1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARR2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE; PROLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; DATA BASE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, PLANT; GLUTAMINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PROLINE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032200817     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029325     Document Type: Article

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