The Etched1 gene of Zea mays (L.) encodes a zinc ribbon protein that belongs to the transcriptionally active chromosome (TAC) of plastids and is similar to the transcription factor TFIIS

Plant Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 923-939

  Da Costa E Silva, Oswaldo ^a,e   Lorbiecke, René ^a   Garg, Preeti ^a   Müller, Lenard ^b   Waßmann, Martina ^a   Lauert, Patricia ^a   Scanlon, Mike ^c   Hsia, An Ping ^d   Schnable, Patrick S ^d   Krupinska, Karin ^b   Wienand, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Etched1; Plastid nucleoids; Plastid transcription; TFIIS; Transcriptional active chromosome; Transposon tagging

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; CLONING; CROPS; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS;

RECESSIVE MUTATION; SEEDLINGS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PLANT DNA; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR S II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR S-II; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASTIDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 2942752353     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2004.02094.x     Document Type: Article

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