Multiple promoters are a common feature of mitochondrial genes in Arabidopsis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 337-346

  Kühn, Kristina ^a   Weihe, Andreas ^a   Börner, Thomas ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMINE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE; THREONINE; TRANSFERASE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTYLEDON; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FLOWER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; GENE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENES, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 13744249250     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki179     Document Type: Article

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