Genome-wide characterization of cis-acting DNA targets reveals the transcriptional regulatory framework of Opaque2 in maize

Plant Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 532-545

  Li, Chaobin ^a   Qiao, Zhenyi ^a   Qi, Weiwei ^a,b   Wang, Qian ^a   Yuan, Yue ^a   Yang, Xi ^a   Tang, Yuanping ^a   Mei, Bing ^a   Lv, Yuanda ^c   Zhao, Han ^c   Xiao, Han ^d   Songa, Rentao ^d  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Coordinated Crop Biology Research Center ^*  (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

MESSENGER RNA; NITROGEN; PLANT DNA; PLANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; UNTRANSLATED RNA; ZEIN;

BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA, PLANT; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZEA MAYS; ZEIN;

EID: 84927770026     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.134858     Document Type: Article

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