Arabidopsis mutants carrying chimeric sigma factor genes reveal regulatory determinants for plastid gene expression

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1382-1386

  Schweer, Jennifer ^a   Geimer, Simon ^b   Meurer, Jrg ^b   Link, Gerhard ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Chimeric sigma factors; Chloroplast transcription; Domain swap experiments; Regulatory determinants

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLANT RNA; SIG6 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLASTID; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, PLANT; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 67651098985     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcp069     Document Type: Article

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