A conserved proline residue in the leucine zipper region of AtbZIP34 and AtbZIP61 in Arabidopsis thaliana interferes with the formation of homodimer

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 362, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 425-430

  Shen, Huaishun ^a,b   Cao, Kaiming ^b   Wang, Xiping ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AtbZIP34; AtbZIP61; bZIP transcription factor; Heterodimer; Homodimer

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; G BOX BINDING FACTOR; HOMODIMER; LEUCINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN ATBZIP34; PROTEIN ATBZIP61; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANGIOGENESIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; DIMERIZATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONIONS; PROLINE; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; YEASTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 34548288967     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.08.026     Document Type: Article

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