The EDLL motif: A potent plant transcriptional activation domain from AP2/ERF transcription factors

Plant Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 855-865

  Tiwari, Shiv B ^a   Belachew, Alemu ^a   Ma, Siu Fong ^a   Young, Melinda ^a   Ade, Jules ^a   Shen, Yu ^a   Marion, Colleen M ^a   Holtan, Hans E ^a   Bailey, Adina ^a   Stone, Jeffrey K ^a   Edwards, Leslie ^a   Wallace, Andreah D ^a   Canales, Roger D ^a   Adam, Luc ^a   Ratcliffe, Oliver J ^a   Repetti, Peter P ^a  

^a Mendel Biotechnology   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; CONSTANS; flowering; NF Y; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CONSTANS; FLOWERING; NF-Y; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

AMINO ACIDS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CONSTANS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTOPLAST; REPORTER GENE; TIME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOPLASTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSFECTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84861532406     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.04935.x     Document Type: Article

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