Directed evolution of plant basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors for the improvement of transactivational properties

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1759, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 308-318

  Pattanaik, Sitakanta ^a,b   Xie, Claire H ^b   Kong, Que ^a   Shen, Katherine A ^a,b   Yuan, Ling ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidic domain; Basic helix loop helix transcription activators; Directed evolution; Interaction domain; Plant transcription factors; Transactivation

Indexed keywords

CHALCONE SYNTHASE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2A;

ACIDITY; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SHUFFLING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PERILLA FRUTESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTOPLAST; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; TOBACCO; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIRRHINUM; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PERILLA FRUTESCENS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOBACCO; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; ARABIDOPSIS; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PERILLA FRUTESCENS;

EID: 33747888500     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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