Gel mobility shift scanning of the acetate-inducible promoters from Neurospora crassa reveals a common co-inducible DNA-binding protein

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 421-427

  Mizote, Tomoko ^a   Bibbins, Martha ^a   Sheffield, Peter J ^a   Connerton, Ian F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5' upstream regulatory sequence; acetate induction; DNA binding protein; glyoxylate bypass; Neurospora crassa

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BINDING SITE; GENE CONTROL; GENE STRUCTURE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ACETATES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0029915695     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050094     Document Type: Article

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