The yeast α2 and Mcm1 proteins interact through a region similar to a motif found in homeodomain proteins of higher eukaryotes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2135-2143

  Mead, Janet ^a   Zhong, Hualin ^a   Acton, Thomas B ^a   Vershon, Andrew K ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MATA2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA BINDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INSECT; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TATA BOX;

EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECTS; MAMMALS; MCM1 PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029664658     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.5.2135     Document Type: Article

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