Widespread tissue expression of nepenthesin-like aspartic protease genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 724-729

  Takahashi, Kenji ^a   Niwa, Hitomi ^a   Yokota, Namiko ^a   Kubota, Keiko ^a   Inoue, Hideshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Aspartic protease; Gene expression; Nepenthesin like protease; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 46749102062     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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