α2p controls donor preference during mating type interconversion in yeast by inactivating a recombinational enhancer of chromosome III

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1899-1911

  Szeto, Lisa ^a   Fafalios, Maria K ^a   Zhong, Hualin ^b   Vershon, Andrew K ^b   Broach, James R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor selection; Mating type interconversion; Recombinational enhancer; Repression protein 2p; S. cerevisiae; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3; ENHANCER REGION; GENE LOCUS; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSACTIVATION;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MATA2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; MESSENGER RNA; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MCM1 PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030612741     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.15.1899     Document Type: Article

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