ACGT and vicilin core sequences in a promoter domain required for seed-specific expression of a 2S storage protein gene are recognized by the opaque-2 regulatory protein

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 879-889

  Vincentz, M ^a,e   Leite, A ^c   Neshich, G ^a   Vriend, G ^d   Mattar, C ^a   Barros, L ^b   Weinberg, D ^a   De Almeida, E R ^a   Paes De Carvalho, M ^a   Aragao F ^b   Gander, E S ^a  

^a Parque Rural   (Brazil)

^b Ctro Nac Recurs Geneticos B   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bertholletia excelsa; BZIP; Gene regulation; Opaque 2; Seed 2S albumin; Vicilin box

Indexed keywords

2S ALBUMIN PROTEIN, PLANT; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; OPAQUE 2 PROTEIN, ZEA MAYS; OPAQUE-2 PROTEIN, ZEA MAYS; PLANT ANTIGEN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUT; PLANT SEED; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TREE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, PLANT; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUTS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEEDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TREES;

BERTHOLLETIA EXCELSA; COIX; NICOTIANA TABACUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 8544228323     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005874404706     Document Type: Article

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