Identification of functional cis-regulatory elements by sequential enrichment from a randomized synthetic DNA library

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Roccaro, Mario ^a   Ahmadinejad, Nahal ^a,b   Colby, Thomas ^a   Somssich, Imre E ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP); Motif discovery; Plant protoplasts; Pol II CTD phosphorylation; Synthetic DNA elements

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

PLANT DNA; SYNTHETIC DNA;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVALUATION STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PETROSELINUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOPLAST; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, PLANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, SYNTHETIC; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PETROSELINUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOPLASTS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84885546111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-164     Document Type: Article

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