Reconstitution of 'floral quartets' in vitro involving class B and class E floral homeotic proteins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2723-2736

  Melzer, Rainer ^a   Theißen, Günter ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APETALA3 PROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HETERODIMER; PISTILLATA PROTEIN; SEPALLATA3 PROTEIN; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PROBE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, PLANT; FLOWERS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 65849174351     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp129     Document Type: Article

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