CCAAT-box binding transcription factors in plants: Y so many?

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 157-166

  Laloum, Tom ^a   De Mita, Stéphane ^b   Gamas, Pascal ^a   Baudin, Maël ^a   Niebel, Andreas ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCAAT BINDING FACTOR; NUCLEAR FACTOR Y; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLANT GENOME; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CCAAT-BINDING FACTOR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84875262264     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2012.07.004     Document Type: Review

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