Alfin1, a novel zinc-finger protein in alfalfa roots that binds to promoter elements in the salt-inducible MsPRP2 gene

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1123-1135

  Bastola, Dhundy R ^a,b   Pethe, Vaijaynti V ^a,c   Winicov, Ilga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; DNA binding; Roots; Salt tolerance; Zinc finger protein

Indexed keywords

CDNA LIBRARY; CLONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EDETIC ACID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INDUCTION; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MESSENGER RNA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SALT TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HORDEUM; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZINC FINGERS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 0032405763     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006081926699     Document Type: Article

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