A novel DNA binding motif for yeast zinc cluster proteins: The Leu3p and Pdr3p transcriptional activators recognize everted repeats

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 6096-6102

  Hellauer, Karen ^a   Rochon, Marie Hélène ^b   Turcotte, Bernard ^a,b  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST;

EID: 0029802537     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.11.6096     Document Type: Article

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