Transactivation properties of parsley proline-rich bZIP transcription factors

Plant Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Sprenger Haussels, Markus ^a,b   Weisshaar, Bernd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b QIAGEN GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCONE SYNTHASE GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETERODIMER; PARSLEY; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WHITE LIGHT;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APIACEAE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; PROLINE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; PETROSELINUM CRISPUM;

EID: 0034018504     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00687.x     Document Type: Article

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