Novel core promoter elements in the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans and their influence on expression detected by genome-wide analysis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Roy, Sourav ^a   Poidevin, Laetitia ^a   Jiang, Tao ^b   Judelson, Howard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Core promoter; Oomycete genome; Promoter mutagenesis; Reporter gene assay; Transcription factor binding site; Transcription initiation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CORE PROMOTER; DPEP SEQUENCE; FPR SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYALOPERONOSPORA ARABIDOPSIDIS; INITIATOR LIKE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PHYTOPHTHORA SOJAE; PROMOTER REGION; PYTHIUM ULTIMUM; SAPROLEGNIA PARASITICA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; HYALOPERONOSPORA; MAMMALIA; OOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PHYTOPHTHORA SOJAE; PYTHIUM ULTIMUM; SAPROLEGNIA PARASITICA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84873708528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-106     Document Type: Article

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