The multifunctional transcription factors Abf1p, Rap1p and Reb1p are required for full transcriptional activation of the chromosomal PGK gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 348-356

  Packham, Elizabeth A ^a   Graham, Ian R ^a   Chambers, Alistair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abf1p; Cpf1p; Phosphoglycerate kinase; Rap1p; Reb1p

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RAP GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030010173     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050085     Document Type: Article

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