pTAC2, -6, and -12 are components of the transcriptionally active plastid chromosome that are required for plastid gene expression

Plant Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 176-197

  Pfalz, Jeannette ^a   Liere, Karsten ^b   Kandlbinder, Andrea ^c   Dietz, Karl Josef ^c   Oelmüller, Ralf ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHROMOSOMES; CROPS; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEINS; PURIFICATION; RNA;

GEL FILTRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; PLASTIDS; TRANSCRIPTION;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CHROMOSOMES; FARM CROPS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; PURIFICATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA; SINAPIS; SINAPIS ALBA;

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BRASSICA; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLASTID; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSTARD PLANT; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33645739638     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.036392     Document Type: Article

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