The maize Mucronate mutation is a deletion in the 16-kDa γ-zein gene that induces the unfolded protein response

Plant Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 440-451

  Kim, Cheol Soo ^a,b   Gibbon, Bryan C ^b   Gillikin, Jeffrey W ^c   Larkins, Brian A ^b   Boston, Rebecca S ^c   Jung, Rudolf ^d  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosperm; Opaque mutant; Protein body; Unfolded protein response (UPR)

Indexed keywords

ENDOSPERMS; GENETIC MAPPING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE (UPR);

ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; RNA;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PRIMER DNA; ZEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; MAIZE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZEA MAYS; ZEIN;

CORN; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHENOTYPES; PROTEINS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33749985206     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2006.02884.x     Document Type: Article

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