Molecular genetic analysis of chloroplast gene promoters dependent on SIG2, a nucleus-encoded sigma factor for the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase, in Arabidopsis thaliana

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 7090-7098

  Hanaoka, Mitsumasa ^a   Kanamaru, Kengo ^a   Takahashi, Hideo ^a   Tanaka, Kan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA FRAGMENT; NUCLEASE S1; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA; URACIL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLAST GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSGENE; WILD TYPE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAYS; PLASTIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, PLANT; RNA, TRANSFER; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 0347519277     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg935     Document Type: Article

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