Influence of gene dosage and autoregulation of the regulatory genes INO2 and INO4 on inositol/choline-repressible gene transcription in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 462-468

  Schwank, Sabine ^a   Hoffmann, Brigitte ^a   Schüller, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

INO2; Phospholipid biosynthesis; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; FUNGAL DNA; INOSITOL; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CHOLINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HOMEOSTASIS; INOSITOL; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030789454     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050231     Document Type: Article

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