Four divergent Arabidopsis ethylene-responsive element-binding factor domains bind to a target DNA motif with a universal CG step core recognition and different flanking bases preference

FEBS Journal

Volumn 276, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 7177-7186

  Yang, Shuo ^a   Wang, Shichen ^a   Liu, Xiangguo ^a   Yu, Ying ^a   Yue, Lin ^c   Wang, Xiaoping ^a   Hao, Dongyun ^a,b  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JILIN ACADEMY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CG step; DRE motif; ERF domain; Homology; Universal binding characteristic

Indexed keywords

DNA; ETHYLENE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA FLANKING REGION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE TARGETING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 70449719104     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07428.x     Document Type: Article

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