In planta analysis of a cis-regulatory cytokinin response motif in arabidopsis and identification of a novel enhancer sequence

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1079-1092

  Ramireddy, Eswarayya ^a   Brenner, Wolfram G ^a   Pfeifer, Andreas ^a   Heyl, Alexander ^a   Schmülling, Thomas ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Cytokinin; Cytokinin response element; Cytokinin response motif; Response regulator; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ARR1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARR2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARR6 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; CYTOKININ; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PHYTOHORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CYTOKININ RESPONSE ELEMENT; CYTOKININ RESPONSE MOTIF; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECT; ENHANCER REGION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RESPONSE REGULATOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CYTOKININ; CYTOKININ RESPONSE ELEMENT; CYTOKININ RESPONSE MOTIF; RESPONSE REGULATOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOKININS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84880235458     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pct060     Document Type: Article

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