Arabidopsis SEPALLATA proteins differ in cooperative DNA-binding during the formation of floral quartet-like complexes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 10927-10942

  Jetha, Khushboo ^a   Theißen, Günter ^a   Melzer, Rainer ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APETALA3 PROTEIN; PISTILLATA PROTEIN; PLANT PROTEIN; SEP1 PROTEIN; SEP2 PROTEIN; SEP3 PROTEIN; SEP4 PROTEIN; SEPALLATA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APETALA 3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; PROTEIN BINDING; SEP3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; SEP4 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; SEPALLATA PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AP3 GENE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SIMILARITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEP3 GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA, PLANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84929795857     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku755     Document Type: Article

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