Identification of key amino acids for the evolution of promoter target specificity of anthocyanin and proanthocyanidin regulating MYB factors

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 82, Issue 4-5, 2013, Pages 457-471

  Heppel, Simon C ^b,h   Jaffé, Felix W ^a,c   Takos, Adam M ^a,d   Schellmann, Swen ^a,e   Rausch, Thomas ^b   Walker, Amanda R ^a   Bogs, Jochen ^b,f,g  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f Dienstleistungszentrum Landlicher Raum DLR   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES BINGEN   (Germany)

^h DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolution; Flavonoids; Gene regulation; MYB specificity; R2R3 MYB transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MYB PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PROANTHOCYANIDIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTHOCYANINS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROANTHOCYANIDINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARABIDOPSIS; VITIS;

EID: 84879171777     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-013-0074-8     Document Type: Article

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