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Heritable endogenous gene regulation in plants with designed polydactyl zinc finger transcription factors.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Oct 2002
Guan Xuen, Stege Justin, Kim Myoung, Dahmani Zina, Fan Nancy, Heifetz Peter, Barbas Carlos F, Briggs Steven P
Abstract excerpt
Zinc finger transcription factors (TFs(ZF)) were designed and applied to transgene and endogenous gene regulation in stably transformed plants. The target of the TFs(ZF) is the Arabidopsis gene APETALA3 (AP3), which encodes a transcription factor that determines floral organ identity. A zinc finger protein (ZFP) was designed to specifically bind to a region upstream of AP3. AP3 transcription was induced by...
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