Binding of lac repressor-GFP fusion protein to lac operator sites inserted in the tobacco chloroplast genome examined by chromatin immunoprecipitation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Newell, Christine A ^a   Gray, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; FORMALDEHYDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN LAC REPRESSOR FUSION PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; ISOPROPYL THIOGALACTOSIDE; SEPHAROSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LAC REPRESSOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOSE OPERON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OPERATOR GENE; PROCEDURES;

BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; LAC REPRESSORS; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TOBACCO;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 77955780183     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq413     Document Type: Article

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