Negative effect of the 5'-untranslated leader sequence on Ac transposon promoter expression

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 935-944

  Scortecci, Katia Castanho ^a   Raina, Ramesh ^b   Fedoroff, Nina V ^b   Van Sluys, Marie Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5' UTL region; Ac transposon; Inhibitory effect; Promoter activity; Transient assays

Indexed keywords

DELETION MUTAGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAIZE; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCURONIDASE; LUCIFERASES; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TOBACCO; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033179962     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006288503153     Document Type: Article

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