MicroProtein-Mediated Recruitment of CONSTANS into a TOPLESS Trimeric Complex Represses Flowering in Arabidopsis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Graeff, Moritz ^a,b   Straub, Daniel ^a,b   Eguen, Tenai ^a,b   Dolde, Ulla ^a,b   Rodrigues, Vandasue ^a,b   Brandt, Ronny ^c   Wenkel, Stephan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANS PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICROPROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN MIP1A; PROTEIN MIP1B; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TOPLESS PROTEIN; TOPLESS RELATED CO REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CONSTANS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; TOPLESS PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWERING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSGENIC PLANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84962473586     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005959     Document Type: Article

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