Characterization and functional analysis of Arabidopsis TFIIA reveal that the evolutionarily unconserved region of the large subunit has a transcription activation domain

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 515-525

  Li, You Fang ^a,b   Gourierrec, José Le ^a,b   Torki, Moez ^a,b   Kim, Yeon Jung ^a,b   Guerineau, François ^a,b   Zhou, Dao Xiu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; TBP; TFIIA function; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PLANT GENETICS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 0033082663     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006139724849     Document Type: Article

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