Bioinformatic cis-element analyses performed in Arabidopsis and rice disclose bZIP- and MYB-related binding sites as potential AuxRE-coupling elements in auxin-mediated transcription

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Berendzen, Kenneth W ^a   Weiste, Christoph ^b   Wanke, Dierk ^a   Kilian, Joachim ^a   Harter, Klaus ^a   Dröge Laser, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auxin regulated transcription; AuxRE; bZIP; cis element modules; Cis elements; MYB; MYC

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHYTOHORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; RICE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84864411395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-12-125     Document Type: Article

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