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KMID : 0368420060490040281
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Journal of Plant Biology
2006 Volume.49 No. 4 p.281 ~ p.285
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Recombinant AtNF-YA, a subunit of theArabidopsis CCAAT-binding transcription factor, forms a protein-DNA complex with mammalian NF-YB and NF-YC
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Park Soo-Min
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Abstract
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The evolutionary conserved CCAAT binding protein NF-Y is a common regulatory DNA binding protein consisting of three distinct subunits. Unlike yeast and mammals, in which only a single copy of each subunit is encoded,Arabidopsis encodes a multi-gene family for each subunit in its genome. Compared with the NF-Y of mammals or yeast, very little is known about plant NF-Y homologs. HereArabidopsis NF-YA subunits were isolated to determine whether they could form a hete-rotrimeric NF-Y complex with mammalian NF-YB and NF-YC. This resultant chimeric NF-Y complex had DNA binding ability to the same CCAAT sequences as those of the other life systems. Therefore, it is possible that plant NF-Y homologs might have biochemical characteristics similar to mammalian NF-Y, thereby suggesting its functional conservation among organisms.
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KEYWORD
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Arabidopsis genome, electrophoretic mobility shift assay, Nuclear Factor Y, yeast three-hybrid assay
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