A light-switchable gene promoter system

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1041-1044

  Shimizu Sato, Sae ^a,b   Huq, Enamul ^a,b   Tepperman, James M ^a,b   Quail, Peter H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; PHOTONS; PROTEINS; TITRATION; TOXICITY; YEAST;

TRANSGENE SYSTEMS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN PIF3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PHOTORECEPTOR; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RED LIGHT; TITRIMETRY; YEAST CELL;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHYTOCHROME; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENES; YEASTS;

EID: 0036789439     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt734     Document Type: Article

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