A newly identified gene cluster in Aspergillus nidulans comprises five novel genes localized in the alc region that are controlled both by the specific transactivator AlcR and the general carbon-catabolite repressor CreA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 475-488

  Fillinger, Sabine ^a   Felenbok, Béatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCA; ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ALCOHOL METABOLISM; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CARBON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHANOL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029974525     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.5301061.x     Document Type: Article

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