Structural characteristics of two wheat histone H2A genes encoding distinct types of variants and functional differences in their promoter activity

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 791-802

  Huh, Gyung Hye ^a,b   Nakayama, Takuya ^a,c   Meshi, Tetsuo ^a   Iwabuchi, Masaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cis regulatory sequences; promoter analysis; S phase specific expression; transgenic tobacco; wheat H2A genes

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PROMOTER REGION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HISTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOBACCO; TRITICUM; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 8244250121     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005768104540     Document Type: Article

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