In Arabidopsis thaliana, 1% of the genome codes for a novel protein family unique to plants

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 603-613

  Aubourg, Sébastien ^a   Boudet, Nathalie ^a   Kreis, Martin ^a   Lecharny, Alain ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT SCIENCES PARIS SACLAY IPS2   (France)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Combinatorial motifs; Gene family; Genome; Orphan genes

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ATPCMP GENE; ATPCMP PROTEIN; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CDNA LIBRARY; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENOME ORGANIZATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT GENOME; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0034016127     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006352315928     Document Type: Article

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