The Arabidopsis Athb-8, -9 and -14 genes are members of a small gene family coding for highly related HD-ZIP proteins

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 609-622

  Sessa, Giovanna ^a   Steindler, Corinna ^a   Morelli, Giorgio ^b   Ruberti, Ida ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Binding site selection; Gene expression; Homeobox leucine zipper genes; Protein DNA interaction

Indexed keywords

ASSAY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE ISOLATION; HOMEOBOX; PLANT GENETICS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0032211017     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006016319613     Document Type: Article

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