Identification of the amino acids crucial for the activities of drought responsive element binding factors (DREBs) of Brassica napus

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 3044-3050

  Zhao, Tong Jin ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Yan, Yong Bin ^a   Feng, Feng ^b   Liu, Wei Qun ^b   Zhou, Hai Meng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brassica napus; DRE; DREB1 CBF; Trans activation; Transcriptional factors

Indexed keywords

C REPEAT BINDING FACTOR; DROUGHT RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BRASSICA NAPUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NATURAL DISASTERS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

BRASSICA NAPUS;

EID: 34250214187     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.05.067     Document Type: Article

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