The floral homeotic protein APETALA2 recognizes and acts through an AT-rich sequence element

Development

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1978-1986

  Dinh, Thanh Theresa ^a   Girke, Thomas ^a   Liu, Xigang ^a   Yant, Levi ^b,c   Schmid, Markus ^c   Chen, Xuemei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agamous; ANT; AP2; APETALA2; DNA binding; Flower development

Indexed keywords

APETALA2 PROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; FLOWER DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENETICS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AGAMOUS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; BRASSICACEAE;

EID: 84860761301     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.077073     Document Type: Article

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