Dimers of the N-terminal domain of phytochrome B are functional in the nucleus

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6948, 2003, Pages 571-574

  Matsushita, Tomonao ^a   Mochizuki, Nobuyoshi ^a   Nagatani, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PROTEINS;

PHYTOCHROMES;

DIMERS;

PHYTOCHROME; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PHYB PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PHYTOCHROME B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

LIGHT; PLANT; RESPONSE ANALYSIS;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DIMERIZATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PLANT GROWTH; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; DIMERIZATION; HYPOCOTYL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHOTORECEPTORS; PHYTOCHROME; PHYTOCHROME B; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0042068123     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01837     Document Type: Article

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