Does CONSTANS act as a transcription factor or as a co-activator? The answer may be - yes

New Phytologist

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-3

  Blackman, Benjamin K ^a   Michaels, Scott D ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CCT (CONSTANS CONSTANS LIKE TIMING OF CAB 1) domain; Constans; Flowering; flowering locus T; Heme activator proteiN (HAP); Nuclear factor y (NF Y); Photoperiod

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CONSTANS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NOTE; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOWERS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 77954612258     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03313.x     Document Type: Note

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