Transcriptional regulation of the Nia1 gene encoding nitrate reductase in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Effects of various environmental factors on the expression of a reporter gene under the control of the Nia1 promoter

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 701-711

  Loppes, Roland ^b   Radoux, Michèle ^b   Ohresser, Marc C P ^a,b   Matagne, René F ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; Nitrate reductase; Reporter gene; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ALGA GENETICS; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; ARYLSULFATASE; CHIMERIC GENE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELETION MUTAGENESIS; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC REGULATION; NITRATE REDUCTASE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TUNGSTIC ACID;

ACETATES; ANIMALS; ARYLSULFATASES; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DIURON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, REPORTER; LIGHT; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033227437     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006381527119     Document Type: Article

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