Upstream and downstream sequence elements determine the specificity of the rice tungro bacilliform virus promoter and influence RNA production after transcription initiation

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 249-266

  Klöti, Andreas ^a,c   Henrich, Cécile ^a   Bieri, Stéphane ^a   He, Xiaoyuan ^b   Chen, Gang ^b   Burkhardt, Peter K ^a   Wünn, Joachim ^d   Lucca, Paola ^a   Hohn, Thomas ^b   Potrykus, Ingo ^a   Fütterer, Johannes ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c Paradigm Genetics   (United States)

^d Monsanto Europe NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Epidermis specificity; Promoter comparison; RNA polymerase processivity; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

INTRON; PROMOTER REGION; RICE TUNGRO BACILLIFORM VIRUS; RICE; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BADNAVIRUS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GLUCURONIDASE; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MUS MUSCULUS; RICE TUNGRO BACILLIFORM VIRUS;

EID: 0040533385     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006119517262     Document Type: Article

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