Interactions between upstream and core promoter sequences determine gene expression and nucleosome positioning in tobacco PR-1a promoter

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1779, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 634-644

  Lodhi, Niraj ^a   Ranjan, Amol ^a   Singh, Mala ^a   Srivastava, Rakesh ^a   Singh, Sudhir Pratap ^a   Chaturvedi, Chandra Prakash ^a   Ansari, Suraiya Anjum ^a   Sawant, Samir V ^a   Tuli, Rakesh ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Chimeric promoter; Gene expression; Histone modification; Initiator; TATA box

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; KINETICS; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROMOTER REGION ALPHA GENE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TATA BOX; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TATA BOX; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 52049126220     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2008.07.010     Document Type: Article

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