Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel RING zinc-finger protein gene up-regulated under in vitro salt stress in cassava

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6513-6519

  Dos Reis, Sávio Pinho ^a   De Souza Conceição Tavares, Liliane ^a   De Nazaré Monteiro Costa, Carinne ^a   Santa Brígida, Aílton Borges ^a   Batista De Souza, Claudia Regina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Manihot esculenta; RING H2 protein; Salt stress; Transmembrane domain

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HISTIDINE; PLANT DNA; RING ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CASSAVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT RESPONSE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RZF GENE; SALT STRESS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MANIHOT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION; ZINC FINGERS;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 84864282947     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-1479-1     Document Type: Article

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