Induction of meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae depends on conversion of the transcriptional repressor Ume6 to a positive regulator by its regulated association with the transcriptional activator Ime1

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2518-2526

  Rubin Bejerano, Ifat ^a   Mandel, Silvia ^a   Robzyk, Kenneth ^a   Kassir, Yona ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; GENE CONVERSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029990949     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.5.2518     Document Type: Article

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