In vitro characterization of the tobacco rpoB promoter reveals a core sequence motif conserved between phage-type plastid and plant mitochondrial promoters

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 249-257

  Liere, Karsten ^a   Maliga, Pal ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

In vitro transcription; Nuclear encoded plastid RNA polymerase; Phage type RNA polymerases; Plastid promoters; rpoB operon

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLANT DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MAIZE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLASTID; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TATA BOX; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PLANT; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, TOXIC; PLASTIDS; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE DELETION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033521650     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.1.249     Document Type: Article

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