Constitutive flocculation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae through overexpression of the GTS1 gene, coding for a 'Glo'-type Zn-finger-containing protein

Yeast

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 717-725

  Bossier, Peter ^a,b   Goethals, Peter ^b   Rodrigues Pousada, Claudina ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Floculation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLOCCULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030838067     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19970630)13:8<717::AID-YEA132>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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