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LITERATURES PUBLISHED WITH ORIGINAL PROPOSALS OF NOMENCLATURE OF PLANT SIGMA FACTORS
listed alphabetically with first authors' family names

1. L. A. Allison
   The role of sigma factors in plastid transcription
   Biochimie, 82, 537-548 (2000)

2. M. Fujiwara, A. Nagashima, K. Kanamaru, K. Tanaka, and H. Takahashi
   Three new nuclear genes, sigD, sigE and sigF, encoding putative plastid RNA polymerase sigma factors in Arabidopsis thaliana
   FEBS Lett., 481, 47-52 (2000)

3. M.-A. Hakimi, I. Privat, J.-G. Valay, and S. Lerbs-Mache
   Evolutionary conservation of C-terminal domains of primary sigma70-type transcription factors between plants and bacteria
   J. Biol. Chem., 275, 9215-9221 (2000)
   [showing SIG4, SIG5, and SIG6]

4. K. Isono, M. Shimizu, K. Yoshimoto, Y. Niwa, K. Satoh, A. Yokota, and H. Kobayashi
   Leaf-specifically expressed genes for polypeptides destined for chloroplasts with domains of sigma70-type factors of bacterial RNA polymerases in Arabidopsis thaliana
   Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 94, 14948-14953 (1997)

5. K. Kanamaru, M. Fujiwara, M. Seki, T. Katagiri, M. Nakamura, N. Mochizuki, A. Nagatani, K. Shinozaki, K. Tanaka, and H. Takahashi
   Plastidic RNA polymerase sigma factors in Arabidopsis
   Plant Cell Physiol., 40, 832-842 (1999)

6. M. Kestermann, S. Neukirchen, K. Kloppstech, and G. Link
   Sequence and expression characteristics of a nuclear-encoded chloroplast sigma factor from mustard (Sinaous alba)
   Nucleic Acids Res., 26, 2747-2753 (1998)

7. D. Kroll, M. Streubel, and P. Westhoff
   A plastid sigma factor sequence from the C-4 monocot Sorghum bicolor
   Plant Biology, 1, 180-186 (1999)

8. S. D. Lahiri, and L. A. Allison
   Complementary expression of two plastid-localized alpha-like factors in maize
   Plant Physiol., 123, 883-894 (2000)

9. S. D. Lahiri, J. Yao, C. McCumbers, and L. A. Allison
   Tissue-specific and light-dependent expression within a family of nuclear encoded sigma-like factors from Zea mays
   Mol. Cell Biol. Res. Commun., 1, 14-20 (1999)

10. K. Morikawa, S. Ito, Y. Tsunoyama, Y. Nakahira, T. Shiina, and Y. Toyoshima
    Circadian-regulated expression of a nuclear-encoded plastid sigma factor
    gene (sigA) in wheat seedlings
    FEBS Lett., 451, 275-278 (1999)

11. Y. Shirano, H. Shimada, K. Kanamaru, M. Fujiwara, K. Tanaka, H. Takahashi, K. Unno, S. Sato, S. Tabata, H. Hayashi, C. Miyake, A. Yokota, D. Shibata
    Chloroplast development in Arabidopsis thaliana requires the nuclear-encoded transcription factor Sigma B
    FEBS Lett., 485, 178-182 (2000)

12. K. Tanaka, Y. Tozawa, N. Mochizuki, K. Shinozaki, A. Nagatani, K. Wakasa, and H. Takahashi
    Characterization of three cDNA species encoding plastid RNA polymerase sigma factors in Arabidopsis thaliana: Evidence for the sigma factor heterogeneity in higher plant plastids
    FEBS Lett., 413, 309-313 (1997)

13. Y. Tozawa, K. Tanaka, H. Takahashi, and K. Wakasa
    Nuclear encoding of a plastid sigma factor in rice and its tissue- and light- dependent expression
    Nucleic Acids Res., 26, 415-419 (1998)

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