The maize Dof protein PBF activates transcription of γ-zein during maize seed development

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 441-454

  Marzábal, Pau ^a,b   Gas, Elisabet ^a   Fontanet, Pilar ^a   Vicente Carbajosa, Jesús ^c   Torrent, Margarita ^a   Ludevid, M Dolores ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b ERA Biotech   (Spain)

^c Electrotechnical Section   (Spain)

Author keywords

Zein gene; Dof protein; Endosperm development; Maize prolamin gene; PBF; Seed storage promoter; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PBF PROTEIN, PLANT; PRIMER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ZEIN;

ARTICLE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSACTIVATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS; ZEIN;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 45149088453     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-008-9325-5     Document Type: Article

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