Evening expression of Arabidopsis GIGANTEA is controlled by combinatorial interactions among evolutionarily conserved regulatory motifs

Plant Cell

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3999-4018

  Berns, Markus C ^a   Nordström, Karl ^a,b   Cremer, Frédéric ^a   Tóth, Réka ^a,c   Hartke, Martin ^a   Simon, Samson ^a   Klasen, Jonas R ^a   Bürstel, Ingmar ^a,d   Coupland, George ^a  

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

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CCA1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GI PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; LHY PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; BINDING SITE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME; PROMOTER REGION; RADIATION RESPONSE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84912099087     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.129437     Document Type: Article

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