Studies on differential nuclear translocation mechanism and assembly of the three subunits of the arabidopsis thaliana transcription factor NF-Y

Molecular Plant

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 876-888

  Hackenberg, Dieter ^a   Wu, Yanfang ^a   Voigt, Andrea ^a   Adams, Robert ^a   Schramm, Peter ^a   Grimm, Bernhard ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Nuclear translocation; Protein protein interaction; Transcriptional control and transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84858972430     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/ssr107     Document Type: Article

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