Plastidic RNA polymerase σ factors in Arabidopsis

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 832-842

  Kanamaru, Kengo ^a   Fujiwara, Makoto ^a   Seki, Motoaki ^b   Katagiri, Takeshi ^b   Nakamura, Masanobu ^c   Mochizuki, Nobuyoshi ^c   Nagatani, Akira ^c   Shinozaki, Kazuo ^b   Tanaka, Kan ^a   Takahashi, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Chloroplast; Plastid encoded RNA polymerase (PEP); Sigma factor

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; GENE PRODUCT; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PLASTID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOPLAST; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033180518     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029612     Document Type: Article

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