ZmMADS47 Regulates Zein Gene Transcription through Interaction with Opaque2

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Qiao, Zhenyi ^a   Qi, Weiwei ^a,b   Wang, Qian ^a   Feng, Ya’nan ^a   Yang, Qing ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Wang, Shanshan ^a   Tang, Yuanping ^a   Song, Rentao ^a,b,c  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; OHP1 PROTEIN, ZEA MAYS; PLANT PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; OPAQUE2 GENE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ZEIN GENE; ZMMADS47 GENE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ORYZA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORYZA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; ZEA MAYS; ZEIN;

EID: 84964834064     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005991     Document Type: Article

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