Nakayama T, Ito T, Iwabuchi M
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 1995 Sep 19;1263(3):281-4. doi: 10.1016/0167-4781(95)00117-y.
This is the first demonstration that Gal4 DNA-binding domain (1-94) itself has the ability to trans-activate an eukaryotic promoter in vivo. It significantly activated a wheat histone H3 core promoter, but slightly activated a CaMV 35S core promoter in transiently transfected tobacco cells when the Gal4-recognition sequences were put upstream of the core promoters.
