Characterization of Arabidopsis ZIM, a member of a novel plant-specific GATA factor gene family

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 55, Issue 397, 2004, Pages 631-639

  Shikata, Masahito ^a   Matsuda, Yuko ^a   Ando, Kohei ^a   Nishii, Akiko ^a   Takemura, Miho ^a   Yokota, Akiho ^a   Kohchi, Takayuki ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Cell elongation; GATA factor; Microarray; Transcription factor; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; GROWTH KINETICS;

PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZIM PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

ARABIDOPSIS; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 1542439940     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh078     Document Type: Article

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