Experimental evidence that the maize Activator (Ac) transposase can act on a non-transposable element promoter to repress reporter gene expression in transient plant assays

Genetica

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 289-309

  MacRae, Amy F ^a,b,c  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Activator (Ac) element transposase; Activator (Ac) transposase binding sites (short DNA motifs); CaMV promoter constructs; CpG islands; GusA reporter gene; Non transposable element promoters; Tobacco BY 2 cell protoplasts; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; PRIMER DNA; TRANSPOSASE;

ARTICLE; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; CHEMISTRY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOPLAST; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TRANSPOSON;

BASE SEQUENCE; CAULIMOVIRUS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCURONIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOPLASTS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSION; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TRANSPOSASES; ZEA MAYS;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; EMBRYOPHYTA; ILEX COOKII; NICOTIANA TABACUM; TRANSPOSONS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036669360     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020636901790     Document Type: Article

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