Members of TALE and WUS subfamilies of homeodomain proteins with potentially important functions in development form dimers within each subfamily in rice

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 261-267

  Nagasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Matsuoka, Makoto ^a   Sato, Yutaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heterodimer; Homeodomain; Homodimer; Rice; Yeast two hybrid analysis

Indexed keywords

DIMER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BUD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS;

EID: 27744437572     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: 13417568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.80.261     Document Type: Article

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