Accessibility of α2-repressed promoters to the activator Ga14

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2865-2869

  Redd, Michael J ^a   Stark, Martha R ^a   Johnson, Alexander D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029954323     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.6.2865     Document Type: Article

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