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SUBMITTER: Schena M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC525597 | biostudies-other | 1992 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19920501 9
Homeobox genes encode a large family of homeodomain proteins in animal systems. To test whether such genes are also abundant in higher plants, degenerate oligonucleotides complementary to sequences encoding the recognition helix (helix three) of the homeodomain were used to screen genomic and cDNA libraries from the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Analysis of 8 of the 41 cDNAs isolated revealed that each encodes a presumptive homeodomain; interestingly, most of these clones also contain a leucine zi ...[more]