Mapping Functional Domains of Transcription Factors

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 754, Issue , 2011, Pages 167-184

  Zhu, Ling ^a   Huq, Enamul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; bHLH transcription factor; dimerization; DNA binding; domain mapping; repression domain; transcription activation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 79960729515     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-154-3_9     Document Type: Chapter

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