Differential regulation of two glutamine synthetase genes by a single Dof transcription factor

Plant Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-85

  Rueda López, Marina ^a   Crespillo, Remedios ^a   Cánovas, Francisco M ^a   Ávila, Concepción ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonium assimilation; Conifers; Differential expression; Dof factors; Glutamine synthetase; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; PLANT RNA; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; ONION; PHYLOGENY; PINE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTOPLAST; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOBACCO;

CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; ONIONS; PHYLOGENY; PINUS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTOPLASTS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CONIFEROPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 52649087332     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2008.03573.x     Document Type: Article

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