TAL effectors are remote controls for gene activation

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-53

  Scholze, Heidi ^a   Boch, Jens ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; REVIEW; XANTHOMONAS;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VIRULENCE FACTORS; XANTHOMONAS;

NEGIBACTERIA; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 79551687772     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2010.12.001     Document Type: Review

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