His-Asp phosphotransfer possibly involved in the nitrogen signal transduction mediated by cytokinin in maize: Molecular cloning of cDNAs for two-component regulatory factors and demonstration of phosphotransfer activity in vitro

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 563-573

  Sakakibara, Hitoshi ^a   Hayakawa, Atsuko ^a   Deji, Atsushi ^a   Gawronski, Stanislaw W ^a,b   Sugiyama, Tatsuo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cytokinin; His Asp phosphorelay; Histidine containing phosphotransfer domain; Nitrogen signal transduction; Response regulator; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKININ; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ETHYLENE; INORGANIC NITROGEN; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZEATIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ACID; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOKININS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZEA MAYS; ZEATIN;

EID: 0033231609     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006391304881     Document Type: Article

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