The TTG1-bHLH-MYB complex controls trichome cell fate and patterning through direct targeting of regulatory loci

Development

Volumn 135, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1991-1999

  Zhao, Mingzhe ^a   Morohashi, Kengo ^b   Hatlestad, Greg ^a   Grotewold, Erich ^b   Lloyd, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Cell differentiation; Cell fate; Epidermis; Gene regulation; Leaf; Pattern formation; Transcription; Trichome; TTG1

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN MYB; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLABRA1; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPIDERMIS CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC REGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LEAF DEVELOPMENT; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSGENICS; TRICHOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 46749110463     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.016873     Document Type: Article

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