Molecular analysis of T-DNA insertion mutants identified putative regulatory elements in the AtTERT gene

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5531-5545

  Fojtová, Miloslava ^a,b   Peška, Vratislav ^a,b   Dobšáková, Zuzana ^a,c   Mozgová, Iva ^b   Fajkus, Jiří ^a,b   Sýkorová, Eva ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Cytogenetics Laboratory Brno Ltd   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; regulation element; T DNA insertion; telomerase; transcription

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; T DNA; T-DNA; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOTYPE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERASE;

EID: 81155136738     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err235     Document Type: Article

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